

To build from these sources, you will need: Set it to False to have the returned value be an array of tuples of operations and corresponding strings rather than operations and the lengths of those strings. The diff methods also take a counts_only argument which is True by default. checklines is also a Google thing and might speed up diffs that are over lined-based text like code. According to the Google docs, the diff will stop working after the time is exceeded and will return a valid diff, but it might not be the best one. The timelimit argument is the maximum running time in seconds if you want to ensure the result comes quickly. In Python 2, the methods are named diff_unicode (unicode strings) and diff_str (str strings). The module also provides a method called diff_bytes for performing a diff on a bytes array. If op = "+": print ( "next", length, "characters are inserted") If op = "=": print ( "next", length, "characters are in common") If op = "-": print ( "next", length, "characters are deleted") Then write (this is Python 3):: from diff_match_patch import diffĬhanges = diff( "Hello world.", "Goodbye moon.", Exampleįirst:: pip3 install diff_match_patch_python This project is a Python extension module for the C++ STL port so Python codeĬan call into the native library easily.

Google's library depends on Qt 4, so some other folks rewrote it using the standard C++ library classes instead, making it more portable. I wanted to use the C++ implementation, but I'm a Python guy so I'd prefer to use it from Python.

Although there is a Python port, it's slow on very large documents, and I have a need for speed. Thare are implementations in various languages. Google-diff-match-patch is a Google library for computing differences between text files ( ). A Python extension module that wraps google-diff-match-patch's C++ implementation for performing very fast string comparisons.
