Any way to adjust difflib algorithm?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-08-14, 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.

[...]

> In my particular usage, no lines have ever been
> inserted/deleted, so perhaps I should be running diffs on
> individual lines instead?  If I do that, I can't figure out
> how to generate HTML output.

I ended up using the SequenceMatcher on individual pairs of
lines and generating my own HTML based on the results of
get_matching_blocks().

That produced the desired results.

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