problem using differ

[Gary Richardson]

"Russell" <rphaturos at knology.net> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to automate the comparison of some source code but I'm having
> trouble using the differ object.  I'm new to Python so I'm probably doing
> something wrong.  I've created a small program (included below) that
> demonstrates my problem.  For some reason, Python doesn't recognize
differ.
> I keep getting this error: NameError: name 'differ' is not defined.  What
am
> I doing wrong?
>
> Test Code follows:
> import difflib
>
> a=[]
> a.append('1. Beautiful is better than ugly.')
> a.append('2. Explicit is better than implicit.')
> a.append('3. Simple is better than complex.')
> a.append('4. Complex is better than complicated.')
>
> b=[]
> b.append('1. Beautiful is better than ugly.')
> b.append('3.   Simple is better than complex.')
> b.append('4. Complicated is better than complex.')
> b.append('5. Flat is better than nested.')
>
> d=differ()
> d.compare(a,b)
>
>
d=difflib.Differ()
for k in range(4):
 dif = d.compare(a[k], b[k])
 for p in dif:
  print p,
 print