Bugs item #1804008, was opened at 2007-09-28 00:35 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nobody You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=1804008...

Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: General Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 6 Private: No 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: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2008-01-25 13:38

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Guess this is an example http://bildr.no/view/146822

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Comment By: Francesco Cosoleto (cosoleto) Date: 2007-09-28 00:38

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File Added: difflib_test.py

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