ndiff() method - Returning Differ Style Difference
ndiff()
available through Differ Instance.
It takes in two list of strings a and b compares the two and returns a Differ-style delta
(a generator generating the delta lines). In other words it returns a generator
that has a list of lines showing the difference between two lists. It allows us
to compare a string character by character.
It also lets us specify linejunk and charjunk.
Thus it takes in four parameters.
- a & b:
The two list od strings to be compared. - Linejunk: A function that accepts a single string argument, and returns true if the string
is junk, or false if not. The default value is None. - Charjunk : A function that accepts a character (a string of length 1), and returns if the
character is junk, or false if not. The default is module-level function
IS_CHARACTER_JUNK(), which filters out whitespace characters (a blank or tab;
it’s a bad idea to include newline in this!).
SYNTAX
ndiff(a,b,linejunk=None,charjunk=IS_CHARACTER_JUNK)
Lets Take an example
CODE:
import difflib
from difflib import ndiff
String1= ['Moon\n', 'Sun\n', 'Jupyter\n','Earth\n']
String2=['Noon\n', 'Son\n', 'Jupiter\n','Earth\n']
Difference=ndiff(String1,String2,linejunk=None)
print(''.join(Difference), end="")Thus in the above code we have taken two input strings. Then used the ndiff function for
making the comparison
OUTPUT:
The output shows the changes with ‘+’ and ‘-‘ sign.
It also shows the letter that has been changed. The ‘^’ indicators have been correctly added to the
letter that has been identified as differences. The last word Earth has no changes
at all so there is no indicator.
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