# used for the notifications, the front-end is using a JS library import difflib def same_slicer(l, a, b): if a == b: return [l[a]] else: return l[a:b] # like .compare but a little different output def customSequenceMatcher(before, after, include_equal=False, include_removed=True, include_added=True): cruncher = difflib.SequenceMatcher(isjunk=lambda x: x in " \\t", a=before, b=after) # @todo Line-by-line mode instead of buncghed, including `after` that is not in `before` (maybe unset?) for tag, alo, ahi, blo, bhi in cruncher.get_opcodes(): if include_equal and tag == 'equal': g = before[alo:ahi] yield g elif include_removed and tag == 'delete': g = ["(removed) " + i for i in same_slicer(before, alo, ahi)] yield g elif tag == 'replace': g = ["(changed) " + i for i in same_slicer(before, alo, ahi)] g += ["(into) " + i for i in same_slicer(after, blo, bhi)] yield g elif include_added and tag == 'insert': g = ["(added) " + i for i in same_slicer(after, blo, bhi)] yield g # only_differences - only return info about the differences, no context # line_feed_sep could be "
" or "
  • " or "\n" etc def render_diff(previous_version_file_contents, newest_version_file_contents, include_equal=False, include_removed=True, include_added=True, line_feed_sep="\n"): newest_version_file_contents = [line.rstrip() for line in newest_version_file_contents.splitlines()] if previous_version_file_contents: previous_version_file_contents = [line.rstrip() for line in previous_version_file_contents.splitlines()] else: previous_version_file_contents = "" rendered_diff = customSequenceMatcher(previous_version_file_contents, newest_version_file_contents, include_equal, include_removed, include_added) # Recursively join lists f = lambda L: line_feed_sep.join([f(x) if type(x) is list else x for x in L]) return f(rendered_diff)