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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 \[warning: quite slow\]" \(http://bugs.python.org/issue1678345\) -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: normal **See Also**: https://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/509

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) -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: normal **See Also**: https://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/509

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 \[warning: quite slow\]" \(http://bugs.python.org/issue1678345\) -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: normal **See Also**: https://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/509