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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1999-03-28 17:55:32 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1999-03-28 17:55:32 (GMT)
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Tim Peters writes:
I should have waited overnight <wink/sigh>. Nothing wrong with the one I sent, but I couldn't resist going on to add new -r1 / -r2 cmdline options for recreating the original files from ndiff's output. That's attached, if you're game! Us Windows guys don't usually have a sed sitting around <wink>.
Diffstat (limited to 'Tools/scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xTools/scripts/ndiff.py77
1 files changed, 53 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Tools/scripts/ndiff.py b/Tools/scripts/ndiff.py
index 3f453af..2323dd8 100755
--- a/Tools/scripts/ndiff.py
+++ b/Tools/scripts/ndiff.py
@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
#! /usr/bin/env python
-# Module ndiff version 1.3.0
-# Released to the public domain 26-Mar-1999,
+# Module ndiff version 1.4.0
+# Released to the public domain 27-Mar-1999,
# by Tim Peters (tim_one@email.msn.com).
# Provided as-is; use at your own risk; no warranty; no promises; enjoy!
"""ndiff [-q] file1 file2
+ or
+ndiff (-r1 | -r2) < ndiff_output > file1_or_file2
Print a human-friendly file difference report to stdout. Both inter-
-and intra-line differences are noted.
+and intra-line differences are noted. In the second form, recreate file1
+(-r1) or file2 (-r2) on stdout, from an ndiff report on stdin.
-If -q ("quiet") is not specified, the first two lines of output are
+In the first form, if -q ("quiet") is not specified, the first two lines
+of output are
-: file1
+: file2
@@ -24,22 +28,22 @@ Each remaining line begins with a two-letter code:
"? " line not present in either input file
Lines beginning with "? " attempt to guide the eye to intraline
-differences, and were not present in either input file.
+differences, and were not present in either input file. These lines can
+be confusing if the source files contain tab characters.
The first file can be recovered by retaining only lines that begin with
-" " or "- ", and deleting those 2-character prefixes.
+" " or "- ", and deleting those 2-character prefixes; use ndiff with -r1.
The second file can be recovered similarly, but by retaining only " "
-and "+ " lines. On Unix, the second file can be recovered by piping the
-output through
+and "+ " lines; use ndiff with -r2; or, on Unix, the second file can be
+recovered by piping the output through
+
sed -n '/^[+ ] /s/^..//p'
-Modifications to recover the first file are left as an exercise for
-the reader.
See module comments for details and programmatic interface.
"""
-__version__ = 1, 3, 0
+__version__ = 1, 4, 0
# SequenceMatcher tries to compute a "human-friendly diff" between
# two sequences (chiefly picturing a file as a sequence of lines,
@@ -324,7 +328,7 @@ class SequenceMatcher:
if k:
if alo < i and blo < j:
self.__helper(alo, i, blo, j, answer)
- answer.append( x )
+ answer.append(x)
if i+k < ahi and j+k < bhi:
self.__helper(i+k, ahi, j+k, bhi, answer)
@@ -528,14 +532,20 @@ def fancy_helper(a, alo, ahi, b, blo, bhi):
elif blo < bhi:
dump('+', b, blo, bhi)
+def fail(msg):
+ import sys
+ out = sys.stderr.write
+ out(msg + "\n\n")
+ out(__doc__)
+ return 0
+
# open a file & return the file object; gripe and return 0 if it
# couldn't be opened
def fopen(fname):
try:
return open(fname, 'r')
except IOError, detail:
- print "couldn't open " + fname + ": " + str(detail)
- return 0
+ return fail("couldn't open " + fname + ": " + str(detail))
# open two files & spray the diff to stdout; return false iff a problem
def fcompare(f1name, f2name):
@@ -568,33 +578,52 @@ def fcompare(f1name, f2name):
def main(args):
import getopt
try:
- opts, args = getopt.getopt(args, "q")
+ opts, args = getopt.getopt(args, "qr:")
except getopt.error, detail:
- print str(detail)
- print __doc__
- return 0
+ return fail(str(detail))
noisy = 1
+ qseen = rseen = 0
for opt, val in opts:
if opt == "-q":
+ qseen = 1
noisy = 0
+ elif opt == "-r":
+ rseen = 1
+ whichfile = val
+ if qseen and rseen:
+ return fail("can't specify both -q and -r")
+ if rseen:
+ if args:
+ return fail("no args allowed with -r option")
+ if whichfile in "12":
+ restore(whichfile)
+ return 1
+ return fail("-r value must be 1 or 2")
if len(args) != 2:
- print 'need 2 args'
- print __doc__
- return 0
+ return fail("need 2 filename args")
f1name, f2name = args
if noisy:
print '-:', f1name
print '+:', f2name
return fcompare(f1name, f2name)
+def restore(which):
+ import sys
+ tag = {"1": "- ", "2": "+ "}[which]
+ prefixes = (" ", tag)
+ for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
+ if line[:2] in prefixes:
+ print line[2:],
+
if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys
args = sys.argv[1:]
- if 1:
- main(args)
- else:
+ if "-profile" in args:
import profile, pstats
+ args.remove("-profile")
statf = "ndiff.pro"
profile.run("main(args)", statf)
stats = pstats.Stats(statf)
stats.strip_dirs().sort_stats('time').print_stats()
+ else:
+ main(args)