raise DiffLimitExceeded('Diff Limit Exceeded')

        return safe_unicode(string).replace('&', '&')\

                .replace('<', '&lt;')\

                .replace('>', '>')

    def _line_counter(self, l):

        """

        Checks each line and bumps total adds/removes for this diff

        :param l:

        """

        if l.startswith('+') and not l.startswith('+++'):

            self.adds += 1

        elif l.startswith('-') and not l.startswith('---'):

            self.removes += 1

        return safe_unicode(l)

    def _highlight_line_difflib(self, line, next_):

        """

        Highlight inline changes in both lines.

        """

        if line['action'] == 'del':

            old, new = line, next_

        else:

            old, new = next_, line

        oldwords = self._token_re.split(old['line'])

        newwords = self._token_re.split(new['line'])

        sequence = difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, oldwords, newwords)

        oldfragments, newfragments = [], []

        for tag, i1, i2, j1, j2 in sequence.get_opcodes():

            oldfrag = ''.join(oldwords[i1:i2])

            newfrag = ''.join(newwords[j1:j2])

            if tag != 'equal':

                if oldfrag:

                    oldfrag = '<del>%s</del>' % oldfrag

                if newfrag:

                    newfrag = '<ins>%s</ins>' % newfrag

            oldfragments.append(oldfrag)

            newfragments.append(newfrag)

        old['line'] = "".join(oldfragments)

        new['line'] = "".join(newfragments)

    def _highlight_line_udiff(self, line, next_):

        """

        Highlight inline changes in both lines.

        """

        start = 0

        limit = min(len(line['line']), len(next_['line']))

        while start < limit and line['line'][start] == next_['line'][start]:

            start += 1

        end = -1

        limit -= start

        while -end <= limit and line['line'][end] == next_['line'][end]:

            end -= 1

        end += 1

        if start or end:

            def do(l):

                last = end + len(l['line'])

                if l['action'] == 'add':

                    tag = 'ins'

                else:

                    tag = 'del'

                l['line'] = '%s<%s>%s</%s>%s' % (

                    l['line'][:start],

                    tag,

                    l['line'][start:last],

                    tag,

                    l['line'][last:]

                )

            do(line)

            do(next_)

    def _get_header(self, diff_chunk):

        """

        parses the diff header, and returns parts, and leftover diff

        parts consists of 14 elements::

            a_path, b_path, similarity_index, rename_from, rename_to,

            old_mode, new_mode, new_file_mode, deleted_file_mode,

            a_blob_id, b_blob_id, b_mode, a_file, b_file

        :param diff_chunk:

        """

        if self.vcs == 'git':

            match = self._git_header_re.match(diff_chunk)

            diff = diff_chunk[match.end():]

            return match.groupdict(), imap(self._escaper, diff.splitlines(1))

        elif self.vcs == 'hg':

            match = self._hg_header_re.match(diff_chunk)

            diff = diff_chunk[match.end():]

            return match.groupdict(), imap(self._escaper, diff.splitlines(1))

        else:

            raise Exception('VCS type %s is not supported' % self.vcs)

    def _clean_line(self, line, command):

        if command in ['+', '-', ' ']:

            #only modify the line if it's actually a diff thing

            line = line[1:]

        return line

    def _parse_gitdiff(self, inline_diff=True):

        _files = []

        diff_container = lambda arg: arg

        ##split the diff in chunks of separate --git a/file b/file chunks

        for raw_diff in ('\n' + self._diff).split('\ndiff --git')[1:]:

            head, diff = self._get_header(raw_diff)

            op = None

            stats = {

                'added': 0,

                'deleted': 0,

                'binary': False,

                'ops': {},

            }

            if head['deleted_file_mode']:

                op = 'D'

                stats['binary'] = True

                stats['ops'][DEL_FILENODE] = 'deleted file'

            elif head['new_file_mode']:

                op = 'A'

                stats['binary'] = True

                stats['ops'][NEW_FILENODE] = 'new file %s' % head['new_file_mode']

            else:  # modify operation, can be cp, rename, chmod

                # CHMOD

                if head['new_mode'] and head['old_mode']:

                    op = 'M'

                    stats['binary'] = True

                    stats['ops'][CHMOD_FILENODE] = ('modified file chmod %s => %s'

                                        % (head['old_mode'], head['new_mode']))

                # RENAME

                if (head['rename_from'] and head['rename_to']

                      and head['rename_from'] != head['rename_to']):

                    op = 'M'

                    stats['binary'] = True

                    stats['ops'][RENAMED_FILENODE] = ('file renamed from %s to %s'

                                    % (head['rename_from'], head['rename_to']))

                # COPY

                if head.get('copy_from') and head.get('copy_to'):

                    op = 'M'

                    stats['binary'] = True

                    stats['ops'][COPIED_FILENODE] = ('file copied from %s to %s'

                                        % (head['copy_from'], head['copy_to']))

                # FALL BACK: detect missed old style add or remove

                if op is None:

                    if not head['a_file'] and head['b_file']:

                        op = 'A'

                        stats['binary'] = True

                        stats['ops'][NEW_FILENODE] = 'new file'

                    elif head['a_file'] and not head['b_file']:

                        op = 'D'

                        stats['binary'] = True

                        stats['ops'][DEL_FILENODE] = 'deleted file'

                # it's not ADD not DELETE

                if op is None:

                    op = 'M'

                    stats['binary'] = True

                    stats['ops'][MOD_FILENODE] = 'modified file'

            # a real non-binary diff

            if head['a_file'] or head['b_file']:

                try:

                    chunks, _stats = self._parse_lines(diff)

                    stats['binary'] = False

                    stats['added'] = _stats[0]

                    stats['deleted'] = _stats[1]

                    # explicit mark that it's a modified file

                    if op == 'M':

                        stats['ops'][MOD_FILENODE] = 'modified file'

                except DiffLimitExceeded:

                    diff_container = lambda _diff: \

                        LimitedDiffContainer(self.diff_limit,

                                            self.cur_diff_size, _diff)

                    break

            else:  # GIT binary patch (or empty diff)

                # GIT Binary patch

                if head['bin_patch']:

                    stats['ops'][BIN_FILENODE] = 'binary diff not shown'

                chunks = []

            if op == 'D' and chunks:

                    chunks = []

            chunks.insert(0, [{

                'old_lineno': '',

                'new_lineno': '',

                'action':     'context',

                'line':       msg,

                } for _op, msg in stats['ops'].iteritems()

                  if _op not in [MOD_FILENODE]])

            _files.append({

                'filename':         head['b_path'],

                'old_revision':     head['a_blob_id'],

                'new_revision':     head['b_blob_id'],

                'chunks':           chunks,

                'operation':        op,

                'stats':            stats,

            })

        sorter = lambda info: {'A': 0, 'M': 1, 'D': 2}.get(info['operation'])

        if not inline_diff:

            return diff_container(sorted(_files, key=sorter))

        # highlight inline changes

        for diff_data in _files:

            for chunk in diff_data['chunks']:

                lineiter = iter(chunk)

                try:

                    while 1:

                        line = lineiter.next()

                        if line['action'] not in ['unmod', 'context']:

                            nextline = lineiter.next()

                            if nextline['action'] in ['unmod', 'context'] or \

                               nextline['action'] == line['action']:

                                continue

                            self.differ(line, nextline)

                except StopIteration:

                    pass

        return diff_container(sorted(_files, key=sorter))

    def _parse_udiff(self, inline_diff=True):

        raise NotImplementedError()

    def _parse_lines(self, diff):

        """

        Parse the diff an return data for the template.

        """

        lineiter = iter(diff)

        stats = [0, 0]

        try:

            chunks = []

            line = lineiter.next()

            while line:

                lines = []

                chunks.append(lines)

                match = self._chunk_re.match(line)

                if not match:

                    break

                gr = match.groups()

                (old_line, old_end,

                 new_line, new_end) = [int(x or 1) for x in gr[:-1]]

                old_line -= 1

                new_line -= 1

                context = len(gr) == 5

                old_end += old_line

                new_end += new_line

                if context:

                    # skip context only if it's first line

                    if int(gr[0]) > 1:

                        lines.append({

                            'old_lineno': '...',

                            'new_lineno': '...',

                            'action':     'context',

                            'line':       line,

                        })

                line = lineiter.next()

                while old_line < old_end or new_line < new_end:

                    command = ' '

                    if line:

                        command = line[0]

                    affects_old = affects_new = False

                    # ignore those if we don't expect them

                    if command in '#@':

                        continue

                    elif command == '+':

                        affects_new = True

                        action = 'add'

                        stats[0] += 1

                    elif command == '-':

                        affects_old = True

                        action = 'del'

                        stats[1] += 1

                    else:

                        affects_old = affects_new = True

                        action = 'unmod'

                    if not self._newline_marker.match(line):

                        old_line += affects_old

                        new_line += affects_new

                        lines.append({

                            'old_lineno':   affects_old and old_line or '',

                            'new_lineno':   affects_new and new_line or '',

                            'action':       action,

                            'line':         self._clean_line(line, command)

                        })

                    line = lineiter.next()

                    if self._newline_marker.match(line):

                        # we need to append to lines, since this is not

                        # counted in the line specs of diff

                        lines.append({

                            'old_lineno':   '...',

                            'new_lineno':   '...',

                            'action':       'context',

                            'line':         self._clean_line(line, command)

                        })

        except StopIteration:

            pass

        return chunks, stats

    def _safe_id(self, idstring):

        """Make a string safe for including in an id attribute.

        The HTML spec says that id attributes 'must begin with

        a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number

        of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores

        ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".")'. These regexps

        are slightly over-zealous, in that they remove colons

        and periods unnecessarily.

        Whitespace is transformed into underscores, and then

        anything which is not a hyphen or a character that

        matches \w (alphanumerics and underscore) is removed.

        """

        # Transform all whitespace to underscore

        idstring = re.sub(r'\s', "_", '%s' % idstring)

        # Remove everything that is not a hyphen or a member of \w

        idstring = re.sub(r'(?!-)\W', "", idstring).lower()

        return idstring

    def prepare(self, inline_diff=True):

        """

        Prepare the passed udiff for HTML rendering. It'l return a list

        of dicts with diff information

        """

        parsed = self._parser(inline_diff=inline_diff)

        self.parsed = True

        self.parsed_diff = parsed

        return parsed

    def as_raw(self, diff_lines=None):

        """

        Returns raw string diff

        """

        return self._diff

        #return u''.join(imap(self._line_counter, self._diff.splitlines(1)))

    def as_html(self, table_class='code-difftable', line_class='line',

                old_lineno_class='lineno old', new_lineno_class='lineno new',

                code_class='code', enable_comments=False, parsed_lines=None):

        """

        Return given diff as html table with customized css classes

        """

        def _link_to_if(condition, label, url):

            """

            Generates a link if condition is meet or just the label if not.

            """

            if condition:

                return '''<a href="%(url)s">%(label)s</a>''' % {

                    'url': url,

                    'label': label

                }

            else:

                return label