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Author rhettinger
Recipients Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, rhettinger, tim.peters
Date 2017-09-25.00:09:02
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> Of course I can understand if all this is out of the scope of difflib and not an endeavor worth taking up.

I agree with that sentiment.  Data normalization for comparability belongs upstream from difflib (i.e. normalizing line-endings, unicode normalization, case folding, etc).  Difflib's job is to compute a diff.
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