jsondiff
Diff JSON and JSON-like structures in Python.
Installation
pip install jsondiff
Quickstart
>>> import jsondiff as jd
>>> from jsondiff import diff
>>> diff({'a': 1, 'b': 2}, {'b': 3, 'c': 4})
{'c': 4, 'b': 3, delete: ['a']}
>>> diff(['a', 'b', 'c'], ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])
{insert: [(3, 'd')]}
>>> diff(['a', 'b', 'c'], ['a', 'c'])
{delete: [1]}
# Typical diff looks like what you'd expect...
>>> diff({'a': [0, {'b': 4}, 1]}, {'a': [0, {'b': 5}, 1]})
{'a': {1: {'b': 5}}}
# ...but similarity is taken into account
>>> diff({'a': [0, {'b': 4}, 1]}, {'a': [0, {'c': 5}, 1]})
{'a': {insert: [(1, {'c': 5})], delete: [1]}}
# Support for various diff syntaxes
>>> diff({'a': 1, 'b': 2}, {'b': 3, 'c': 4}, syntax='explicit')
{insert: {'c': 4}, update: {'b': 3}, delete: ['a']}
>>> diff({'a': 1, 'b': 2}, {'b': 3, 'c': 4}, syntax='symmetric')
{insert: {'c': 4}, 'b': [2, 3], delete: {'a': 1}}
# Special handling of sets
>>> diff({'a', 'b', 'c'}, {'a', 'c', 'd'})
{discard: set(['b']), add: set(['d'])}
# Load and dump JSON
>>> print diff('["a", "b", "c"]', '["a", "c", "d"]', load=True, dump=True)
{"$delete": [1], "$insert": [[2, "d"]]}
# NOTE: Default keys in the result are objects, not strings!
>>> d = diff({'a': 1, 'delete': 2}, {'b': 3, 'delete': 4})
>>> d
{'delete': 4, 'b': 3, delete: ['a']}
>>> d[jd.delete]
['a']
>>> d['delete']
4
# Alternatively, you can use marshal=True to get back strings with a leading $
>>> diff({'a': 1, 'delete': 2}, {'b': 3, 'delete': 4}, marshal=True)
{'delete': 4, 'b': 3, '$delete': ['a']}
Command Line Client
Usage:
jdiff [-h] [-p] [-s SYNTAX] [-i INDENT] first second positional arguments: first second optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -p, --patch -s SYNTAX, --syntax SYNTAX -i INDENT, --indent INDENT
Examples:
$ jdiff a.json b.json -i 2
$ jdiff a.json b.json -i 2 -s symmetric