[Guido]
Maybe more tools should follow the evolution of ndiff and migrate to the library (where ndiff lives on as difflib).
[Barry]
Probably so. I wonder if it makes sense to put them in a package (e.g. a `scripts' package)?
I don't see how that would be an improvement over leaving them in the scripts directory (which, btw, doesn't bother me a bit). Migration to the library is likely counterproductive unless the code is rewritten to *be* a library. Like ndiff was extensively refactored by two people (me and David Goodger), over two release cycles, to restructure it as a collection of reusable classes and functions. Even so, a much smaller ndiff.py *still* lives in the scripts directory, because the specific application of these algorithms-- and cmdline interface --it supplies don't make sense in a general library module.