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From: Noah <noah-list@enabled.com>
Subject: finding the diff
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:41:50 -0700
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Hi there,

I am researching a nice slick way to provide the difference between 
generated python multi-line configuration output and specific 
configuration lines gathered from an output file.  I could put things in 
a list?   I could put both forms output into IOString() and run a diff 
command to it?

What are some options that work well?

Cheers,

Noah