https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55329
Web browser: --- Bug ID: 55329 Summary: showDiff() highlighting limitation due to difflib design Product: Pywikibot Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: ASSIGNED Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified Mobile Platform: ---
Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/509/ Reported by: cosoleto Created on: 2007-09-28 07:35:32 Subject: showDiff() highlighting limitation due to difflib design Assigned to: cosoleto Original description: 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%5C)
* issue #1678345: "A fix for the bug #1528074 [warning: quite slow]" (http://bugs.python.org/issue1678345%5C)