[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Bugs-1804008 ] showDiff() highlighting limitation due to difflib design

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Bugs item #1804008, was opened at 2007-09-28 00:35
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Category: General
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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: 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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