Bugs item #1804008, was opened at 2007-09-28 09:35 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=180400… 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: 5 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=180400…