Charles Plager's July 2011 Personal Log 

Thursday, July 28

Updated htmpDiff.py  

I updated htmlDiff.py to add --diffOnly so that it only prints out lines with differences:

cplager@Flipper> htmlDiff.py --diffOnly CLPElog*pm > diff.html

Sunday, July 10

New Elog  

This is my first entry in my "personal" elog (where personal really means hosted on my personal web server instead of a work web server). Still won't be very interesting, but I need a place to organize things that I do.

Diff in HTML Output  

Python has a nice diff engine built in called difflib (see this for a nice example of how to use it). Using this, I wrote htmlDiff.py which diffs two lists of strings. diff.html is the output (which is supposd to be self-expanitory and uses diff.css).

Clearly not a finished product, but should be quick to turn this into something useful.

I updated htmlDiff.py to be useful:

cplager@Flipper> ./htmlDiff.py CLPElog.pm CLPElog_old.pm --css ../diff.css > diff.html

Google looks like they have a nice diff engine as well. I can imagine trying to hook it up in the future.

I will probably also make a side-by-side mode as well as possibly a text output version as well (using colors still, of course).

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