PyCopyCat is a simple webapp written in Django to check plagiarism among Python files using AST and SequenceMatcher.
The PyCopyCat app requires Python3 and Django. Install the requirements by:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Clone the repo or download the zip. Create a virtual environment inside the CompareIt directory, activate the virtualenv and install the requirements.
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
Finally, run python manage.py runserver to run the local server and access the local server from 127.0.0.1:8080.
CompareIt project was bulid to check plagiarism among the Python files with following options:
File to File: 2 python files are uploaded and checked for plagiarismFile to Files: A single python file is uploaded and folder containing multiple files are uploaded and checked for plagiarism against each python files.Folder files: In Folder Files comparison, a folder containing multiple files are uploaded and checked for plagiarism among the files in the uploaded folder.- Moredetails : option is added to get in detail percentage of plagiarism by comparing file-file for
File to FilesandFolder files
Two important Modules used:
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ast: AST stands for Abstract Syntax Tree.Is a tree representation of the abstract syntactic structure source code written in a programming language. Each node of tree denotes a construct occurring in the source code.
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difflib: Two Classes are usedSequenceMatcherandHtmlDifffor in details refer https://docs.python.org/3/library/difflib.html.
Make sure to change os.chdir() to your complete path in the following files.
- Compareit/folderfilescmp.py
- Compareit/newfilesmatch.py
Issues faced during the project and solution.
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This project was build using
Python3andDjango2.0.2from django.conf.urls import url Where url in path is not available in present Django version, so had to replace url with path in urls.py
