On 2009-04-08, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid> wrote:
> I'm trying to use difflib to compare strings ignoring changes
> to white-space (space/tab). According to the doc page, you
> can do this by specifying a "charjunk" parameter to filter out
> characters:
>
> charjunk: A function that accepts a character (a string of
> length 1), and returns if the character is junk, or false if
> not. The default is module-level function
> IS_CHARACTER_JUNK(), which filters out whitespace characters
> (a blank or tab; note: bad idea to include newline in
> this!).
Apparently that "filtering out" characters doesn't mean that
they're ignored when doing the comparison. (A bit of a "WTF?"
if you ask me). After some more googling, it appears that I'm
far from the first person who interpreted "filtered out" as
"ignored when comparing lines". I'd submit a fix for the doc
page, but you apparently have to be a lot smarter than me to
figure out what "filters out" means in this context.
I guess I can collapse all whitespace sequences, do the diff on
the collapsed lines, and them map the results back to the
original lines. :/
> What am I doing wrong?
Reading the doc page, apparently. ;)
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