String/source code analysis tools

[Heiko Wundram]

Am Donnerstag 22 April 2004 08:56 schrieb Moosebumps:
> It is actually sort of like a diff algorithm maybe, but it wouldn't go line
> by line.  How would I do a diff, token by token?  I don't know anything
> about what algorithms diffs use.

What about difflib? (part of the standard library) You'd have to write your 
own tokenization function, but that shouldn't be hard...

Heiko.