[issue35286] wrong result for difflib.SequenceMatcher

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[issue35286] wrong result for difflib.SequenceMatcher

Irit Katriel added the comment: Can this issue be closed? It looks like Boris simply misunderstood the semantics of difflib, which Raymond has clarified. -- components: +Library (Lib) nosy: +iritkatriel ___ Python tracker

[issue35286] wrong result for difflib.SequenceMatcher

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[issue35286] wrong result for difflib.SequenceMatcher

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[issue35286] wrong result for difflib.SequenceMatcher

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: The "expected result" listed isn't a valid output for get_matching_blocks() which is documented to return "triples are monotonically increasing in i and j".In your example, the "a" sequence is increasing: 0, 2, 5 but the "b" sequence is not