Print colored visual diff in Python - from Ines Montani https://twitter.com/_inesmontani/status/1156904128666316800

diff_strings.py

import difflib
from wasabi import color

def diff_strings(a, b):
    output = []
    matcher = difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, a, b)
    for opcode, a0, a1, b0, b1 in matcher.get_opcodes():
        if opcode == "equal":
            output.append(a[a0:a1])
        elif opcode == "insert":
            output.append(color(b[b0:b1], fg=16, bg="green"))
        elif opcode == "delete":
            output.append(color(a[a0:a1], fg=16, bg="red"))
        elif opcode == "replace":
            output.append(color(b[b0:b1], fg=16, bg="green"))
            output.append(color(a[a0:a1], fg=16, bg="red"))
    return "".join(output)
    
print(diff_strings("helloo world", "hello world!"))

Use %pip install wasabi first if trying in a Jupyter notebook cell.