Restore a unified diff

[Tim Peters]

[Nick Allen]
> After using ndiff from difflib, the function restore
> would return the sequence that generated the delta.

It can actually reproduce either sequence from which the delta was
generated.  But this is really trivial:  ndiff was intended to produce
diff output for humans to read, and includes the full text of both
input sequences in "the diff" it generates.

> Unfortunately, restore does not do the same for unified_diff.  I do
> not see any similar function that is intended for unified_diff.  Does
> anyone know how to "restore" from a unified diff generated delta?

That's in general impossible, since unified diffs generally omit most
lines that compared equal to begin with.  Unified and context diffs
are, in part, compression gimmicks, showing only what changed plus a
bit of context.  ndiff shows everything, so can restore everything
too.