TextCompare API#

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TextCompare shows two texts in side-by-side panels and highlights every run of matching words, with min_match_words setting how long a run has to be before it counts. Hover a highlight and the other panel scrolls to the same passage, which is what makes shared or lifted text quick to spot between two documents. The matches traitlet hands the same list back to Python with start and end offsets and a word count per match.

See also: HoverZoom for inspecting image detail with the same hover gesture, LiveEdit for reading a Python run instead of prose, and ApiDoc for putting reference text next to the code it describes.

import marimo as mo
from wigglystuff import TextCompare

compare = mo.ui.anywidget(TextCompare(
    text_a="The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.",
    text_b="A quick brown fox leaps over a lazy dog."
))
compare

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def __init__(
    self,
    text_a: str = "",
    text_b: str = "",
    min_match_words: int = 3,
    **kwargs: Any,
) -> None:
    """Create a TextCompare widget.

    Args:
        text_a: First text to compare.
        text_b: Second text to compare.
        min_match_words: Minimum number of consecutive words to consider a match.
        **kwargs: Forwarded to ``anywidget.AnyWidget``.
    """
    super().__init__(
        text_a=text_a,
        text_b=text_b,
        min_match_words=min_match_words,
        **kwargs,
    )
    self._compute_matches()

Synced traitlets#