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[Michael Hudson]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> writes:

> [Michael Hudson]
> > Tangentially, does anyone know of any good algorithms for "edit
> > distance" between two sequences?  E.g. if I have
> >
> > "abcdef"
> >
> > and want to get to
> >
> > "abQUACKcde"
> >
> > I want to get the answer back "insert 'QUACK' at position 3 and delete
> > a character at position 11".
> 
> See std library module difflib.py (new in 2.1).  This packages the
> SequenceMatcher class from the heart of the Tools/scripts/ndiff.py tool for
> easy reuse.

Ah yes; I knew about that and thought it was probably too
heavy-weight, but admittedly didn't actually try it...

[snip]
> >>> for tag, i1, i2, j1, j2 in m.get_opcodes():

... or look close enough to find the get_opcodes methods.  I'll give
it a whirl.

Thanks!
M.

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