-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:27:41 -0400 Christopher Harvey <[email protected]> wrote:
> As for generating the diff is it ok to use difflib to generate the > diff text? I hear there is a diff environment variable..(but I can't > seem to find it now) should I use that instead? If I correctly understand what you're referring to, that variable is useful if you just need to present the diff to the user in the format preferred by him -- he could then choose an alternate diffing program, offering another output format. If you need to parse the differences, that's not an option for you as the diffing program chosen by user might use any freeform output format, making it unparseable. Thus, in that case difflib is the solu- tion you're looking for -- it is prepared to provide the differences in a way suitable for program use. - -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://mgorny.alt.pl> <xmpp:[email protected]> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwCjW0ACgkQnGSe5QXeB7uojwCg5bXcUVGR487tyuU+wnNDG5fA JMkAoKiqCHJXsmQz7aYGU+J+BzTPwQsn =lRtw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
