Bugs item #1804008, was opened at 2007-09-28 09:35
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Category: General
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Status: Open
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Priority: 6
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Submitted By: Francesco Cosoleto (cosoleto)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: showDiff() highlighting limitation due to difflib design
Initial Comment:
showDiff() can fail to highlight a char-by-char difference because Python difflib seems
don't support fully char-by-char comparison.
Please see in Python tracker:
* issue #1528074: "difflib.SequenceMatcher.find_longest_match() wrong result"
(
http://bugs.python.org/issue1528074)
* issue #1678345: "A fix for the bug #1528074 [warning: quite slow]"
(
http://bugs.python.org/issue1678345)
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Comment By: Francesco Cosoleto (cosoleto)
Date:
2007-09-28 09:38
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File Added: difflib_test.py
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