[issue37810] ndiff reports incorrect location when diff strings contain tabs

Change by Tim Peters : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue37810] ndiff reports incorrect location when diff strings contain tabs

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +15075 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15365 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37810] ndiff reports incorrect location when diff strings contain tabs

Anthony Sottile added the comment: That's actually a good point, I don't think this should land in python3.7 since it changes outuput -- I'm removing that from the versions (though the bug does affect every version I have access to) -- versions: -Python 3.7

[issue37810] ndiff reports incorrect location when diff strings contain tabs

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: This seems like a reasonable suggestion to me. Am not sure whether it should be backported. Tim, what do you think? -- assignee: -> tim.peters components: +Library (Lib) nosy: +rhettinger, tim.peters ___

[issue37810] ndiff reports incorrect location when diff strings contain tabs

Change by Anthony Sottile : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +14930 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15201 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37810] ndiff reports incorrect location when diff strings contain tabs

New submission from Anthony Sottile : Here's an example from difflib import ndiff def main(): x = '\tx\t=\ty\n\t \t \t^' y = '\tx\t=\ty\n\t \t \t^\n' print('\n'.join( line.rstrip('\n') for line in ndiff(x.splitlines(True), y.splitlines(True))) ) if __name__