Function _mdiff

Lib/difflib.py:1361–1628

r"""Returns generator yielding marked up from/to side by side differences. Arguments: fromlines -- list of text lines to compared to tolines tolines -- list of text lines to be compared to fromlines context -- number of context lines to display on each side of difference,

(fromlines, tolines, context=None, linejunk=None,
           charjunk=IS_CHARACTER_JUNK)

    return Differ(linejunk, charjunk).compare(a, b)

def _mdiff(fromlines, tolines, context=None, linejunk=None,
           charjunk=IS_CHARACTER_JUNK):
    r"""Returns generator yielding marked up from/to side by side differences.

    Arguments:
    fromlines -- list of text lines to compared to tolines
    tolines -- list of text lines to be compared to fromlines
    context -- number of context lines to display on each side of difference,
               if None, all from/to text lines will be generated.
    linejunk -- passed on to ndiff (see ndiff documentation)
    charjunk -- passed on to ndiff (see ndiff documentation)

    This function returns an iterator which returns a tuple:
    (from line tuple, to line tuple, boolean flag)

    from/to line tuple -- (line num, line text)
        line num -- integer or None (to indicate a context separation)
        line text -- original line text with following markers inserted:
            '\0+' -- marks start of added text
            '\0-' -- marks start of deleted text
            '\0^' -- marks start of changed text
            '\1' -- marks end of added/deleted/changed text

    boolean flag -- None indicates context separation, True indicates
        either "from" or "to" line contains a change, otherwise False.

    This function/iterator was originally developed to generate side by side
    file difference for making HTML pages (see HtmlDiff class for example
    usage).

    Note, this function utilizes the ndiff function to generate the side by
    side difference markup.  Optional ndiff arguments may be passed to this
    function and they in turn will be passed to ndiff.
    """
    import re

    # regular expression for finding intraline change indices
    change_re = re.compile(r'(\++|\-+|\^+)')

    # create the difference iterator to generate the differences
    diff_lines_iterator = ndiff(fromlines,tolines,linejunk,charjunk)

    def _make_line(lines, format_key, side, num_lines=[0,0]):
        """Returns line of text with user's change markup and line formatting.

        lines -- list of lines from the ndiff generator to produce a line of
                 text from.  When producing the line of text to return, the
                 lines used are removed from this list.
        format_key -- '+' return first line in list with "add" markup around
                          the entire line.
                      '-' return first line in list with "delete" markup around
                          the entire line.
                      '?' return first line in list with add/delete/change
                          intraline markup (indices obtained from second line)
                      None return first line in list with no markup
        side -- indice into the num_lines list (0=from,1=to)
        num_lines -- from/to current line number.  This is NOT intended to be a
                     passed parameter.  It is present as a keyword argument to