Message133416
[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. |
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2011-04-09 19:50:42 | rhettinger | set | recipients:
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2011-04-09 19:50:42 | rhettinger | set | messageid: <1302378642.82.0.920107618877.issue11747@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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