[issue6931] dreadful performance in difflib: ndiff and HtmlDiff

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

An api addition makes this a feature request.

Heiðar, Please copy of difflib.py, hand patch HtmlDiff to  use unified_diff instead of ndiff, and see if that solves the problem.

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nosy: +terry.reedy
type: performance -> feature request
versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.5, Python 2.6

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