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py3-patiencediff-0.2.19p0

Python implementation of the patiencediff algorithm

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Description

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

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Ports path
textproc/py-patiencediff
Package architecture
amd64
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The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
textproc, lang/python, lang/rust
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None listed
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aarch64, amd64, riscv64, sparc64

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