[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 09:35
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Category: General
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 7
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Submitted By: Francesco Cosoleto (cosoleto)
>Assigned to: Francesco Cosoleto (cosoleto)
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: 2009-04-11 11:18
Message:
Assigned before somebody certainly steals this issue to me. I am going to
add a modified difflib version. Unless the lack of feature is fixed in
recent Python builds or, of course, anyone makes an objection. I am not
sure about a config option to enable or disable line-by-line/char-by-char
comparision.
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-01-25 22:38
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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 09:38
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File Added: difflib_test.py
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