[issue23791] Identify Moved Lines with difflib

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[issue23791] Identify Moved Lines with difflib

Brian added the comment: I have put together 5 basic tests to implement moved lines in difflib. All diffs should be compared against the 'diffmove_base.txt' file. Below is a short description of each test. 1) Basic reordering of lines 2) Reordering of lines with new lines added 3) Reordering o

[issue23791] Identify Moved Lines with difflib

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[issue23791] Identify Moved Lines with difflib

New submission from Brian: It would be a helpful feature to incorporate logic into the difflib module to optionally identify and ignore identical, but relocated lines when doing a diff. This would be used when the order of lines in a document is not critical, but rather just the overall conten