Simple script to show diff between two HTML pages in understandable format

htmldiff.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
""" Simple script to show diff between two HTML pages in understandable format """
import urllib2, tidy, sys, subprocess

tidy_kwargs = dict(
    output_xml=1,
    indent=1,
    indent_attributes=1,
    wrap=80,
    char_encoding='raw',
    tidy_mark=0,
    force_output=1,
    quote_marks=1,
    word_2000=1,
    indent_spaces=0,
    wrap_attributes=1,
)

content = urllib2.urlopen(sys.argv[1]).read()
clean_content = str(tidy.parseString(content, **tidy_kwargs))
f = open('/tmp/1.xhtml', 'w')
f.write(clean_content)
f.close()

content = urllib2.urlopen(sys.argv[2]).read()
clean_content = str(tidy.parseString(content, **tidy_kwargs))
f = open('/tmp/2.xhtml', 'w')
f.write(clean_content)
f.close()

subprocess.call(['bash', '-c',  'diff -u /tmp/1.xhtml /tmp/2.xhtml | colordiff | less -R'])