[issue6931] dreadful performance in difflib: ndiff and HtmlDiff

2014-07-08 Thread Christopher Cabanne
Christopher Cabanne added the comment: Sorry about the typo; here is the corrected timeit command: python -m timeit -n 10 "import difflib; difflib.HtmlDiff().make_table(open('left500.txt').readlines(), open('righ

[issue6931] dreadful performance in difflib: ndiff and HtmlDiff

2014-07-08 Thread Christopher Cabanne
Christopher Cabanne added the comment: Here is a timeit command to test with the attached test files: python -m timeit -n 10 "import difflib; difflib.HtmlDiff().make_table(open('left500.txt').readlines(), open('rig

[issue6931] dreadful performance in difflib: ndiff and HtmlDiff

2014-07-08 Thread Christopher Cabanne
Christopher Cabanne added the comment: I ran into the slowness of difflib.HtmlDiff.make_table yesterday, and see this issue is three years stale now; is there any update or chance that the fix will be applied? -- nosy: +Christopher.Cabanne