textproc/py-patiencediff 0.2.19p0 OpenBSD

This package contains the implementation of the patiencediff algorithm, as first described by Bram Cohen.

Like Python's difflib, this module provides both a convenience unified_diff function for the generation of unified diffs of text files as well as a SequenceMatcher that can be used on arbitrary lists.

Patiencediff provides a good balance of performance, nice output for humans, and implementation simplicity.

The code in this package was extracted from the Bazaar code base.

The package comes with two implementations:

• A Python implementation (_patiencediff_py.py); this implementation only requires a Python interpreter and is the more readable version of the two.
• A C implementation (_patiencediff_c.c); this implementation is faster, but requires a C compiler and is less readable.

It may also be called from the command line:

• python3 -m patiencediff file_a file_b