Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment: [Uncle Timmy] > Would have to look at the history to see who added it, and ask them.
That would be me :-) At the time, the goals were to: 1) make an easy-to-use, readable output format for file comparisons, 2) use the unmodified output of the existing SequenceMatcher(None,a,b).get_grouped_opcodes(n) method, 3) create output that works with patch and ed, and 4) comply with the output format spec in the Single Unix Specification found at http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/ . See the attached excerpt. No effort was made to exactly reproduce the output of GNU diff. It was just an alternate output format for the SequenceMatcher. ---------- nosy: +rhettinger Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21594/Diff_Format.pdf _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11747> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
