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Gendiff (Python)

The second project on Hexlet: Gendiff. Program: Python developer.

The project is aimed at working with collections. Gendiff is a command—line utility for comparing two configuration files. The tool analyzes the files and displays the differences in a readable format. It supports JSON and YAML file formats.

Installation

Cloning the GitHub repository

$ git clone https://github.com/ivanvasutinskiy/python-project-50.git

UV Installation

$ curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Launching the program

$ uv sync
$ uv build 
$ uv tool install dist/*.whl

Description

Help output

$ uv run gendiff --help

• -h, --help — display a help message and exit.
• -f FORMAT, --format FORMAT — set the output format (plain / json / stylish)

Examples of how the program works:

STYLISH format (default)

$ uv run gendiff ./tests/fixtures/file1.json ./tests/fixtures/file2.json

PLAIN format

$ uv run gendiff -f plain ./tests/fixtures/file1.json ./tests/fixtures/file2.json

JSON format

$ uv run gendiff -f json ./tests/fixtures/file1.json ./tests/fixtures/file2.json