Create html diff of two given lists

html_diff.py

import difflib
import re

def html_diff(list1, list2, title='', left='', right=''):
    """Returns HTML as string representing a visual diff for the given lists."""
    diff_html = difflib.HtmlDiff().make_file(list1, list2, left, right)
    diff_html = re.sub(r'<title>.*</title>', '<title>%s</title>' % title, diff_html)
    diff_html = diff_html.replace('content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"',
                                  'content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"')
    diff_html = diff_html.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
    return diff_html