Any way to adjust difflib algorithm?

[Chris Rebert]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Grant Edwards<invalid at invalid> wrote:
> I'm trying to use difflib to compare two files, and it's not
> producing very useful results.  When comparing two lines where
> only a few characters have changed, it usually seems to decide
> that a line was deleted/inserted/replaced rather than changed.
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> Is there a way to tell the differ to try harder to match lines?

You could use a wordwise diff instead: http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/
Obviously that's not a pure Python solution though.

Cheers,
Chris
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