Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: I think it's arguable whether this is a bug or not. There's no official specification for the unified diff format that I can find anywhere; the GNU description at
http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/diff/Detailed-Unified.html#Detailed-Unified doesn't mention this detail. The '\ No newline at end of file' is actually unnecessary for these Python functions, since they operate on lists and produce a generator, so it would be needless complication. And changing this might break existing Python code that manually parses the output of unified_diff or context_diff and doesn't know what to do with a leading '\' character. (Does such Python code exist? I don't know.) I'd suggest adding a keyword argument to the unified_diff and context_diff functions to enable this feature, leaving it disabled by default. ---------- nosy: +tim_one _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2142> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
