Compares two variable lists and reports variables that don't match

azdo-var-list-compare.py

import json
import requests
import os 
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

org = 'your-org'
project = 'your-project'

# the variableGroupId values from the variable libs that 
# you want to compare
lib1 = 2460
lib2 = 3105

url = f'https://dev.azure.com/{org}/{project}/_apis/distributedtask/variablegroups?groupIds={lib1},{lib2}&api-version=6.0-preview.2'
rsp = requests.get(url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth('user', os.environ['AZDO_PAT']))
data = json.loads(rsp.content.decode('utf-8'))

varnamelist = []

for varlist in data['value']:
    # this gets all of the variables for the id selected above
    varnames = [l for l in varlist['variables']]
    varnamelist.append({'id': varlist['id'], 'name': varlist['name'], 'vars': varnames})

lists_equal = len(varnamelist[0]['vars']) == len(varnamelist[1]['vars'])
print(f'Lists are equal: {lists_equal}')

if not lists_equal:
    print(f'variables in {varnamelist[0]["name"]} but not in {varnamelist[1]["name"]}')
    print(", ".join(list(set(varnamelist[0]['vars']) - set(varnamelist[1]['vars']))))
    print(f'variables in {varnamelist[1]["name"]} but not in {varnamelist[0]["name"]}')
    print(", ".join(list(set(varnamelist[1]['vars']) - set(varnamelist[0]['vars']))))