On 12/19/2010 1:41 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Antoine Pitrou<solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
This could be nicely resolved by renaming the arguments "a" and "b",
and having the diff display "a, b". It's quite natural (both the diff
ordering and the arguments ordering), and they are consistent with each
other.
So 'a' stands for 'after' and 'b' for 'before', right? :-)
difflib uses 'a' and 'b' for before and after (orig,new in svn terms,
with edits/diffs from a to b) respectively. Not really great. The docs
then have to explain what 'a' and 'b' are and the implications for
interpreting the output.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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