A simply newbie question about ndiff

[Emile van Sebille]

Neville Franks
> I enter 'import difflib' which I assume is necessary and get no
complaints.
> Then if I type 'ndiff' I get: NameError: name 'ndiff' is not defined.
If I
> type: 'ndiff file1 file2' I get: SyntaxError: invalid systax.
>
> I've also tried:
> >>> s = SequenceMatcher( None, "abcd", "bcde" )
> and I get:
> NameError: name 'SequenceMatcher' is not defined.

Those names live in the difflib namespace.  When using them like this,
you'll need to prefix them.  Try difflib.SequenceMatcher


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Emile van Sebille
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