https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55329
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Bug ID: 55329
Summary: showDiff() highlighting limitation due to difflib
design
Product: Pywikibot
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: ASSIGNED
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/509/
Reported by: cosoleto
Created on: 2007-09-28 07:35:32
Subject: showDiff() highlighting limitation due to difflib design
Assigned to: cosoleto
Original description:
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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