Generating and applying diffs in python

Question

Is there an \'out-of-the-box\' way in python to generate a list of differences between two texts, and then applying this diff to one file to obtain the other, later?

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Answer 1

Did you have a look at diff-match-patch from google? Apparantly google Docs uses this set of algoritms. It includes not only a diff module, but also a patch module, so you can generate the newest file from older files and diffs.

A python version is included.

http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/