Any way to adjust difflib algorithm?

[Aahz]

In article <FMqdncOMnPg-JRjXnZ2dnUVZ_tti4p2d at posted.visi>,
Grant Edwards  <invalid at invalid> wrote:
>On 2009-08-14, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid> wrote:
>>
>> 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.

Good work!  Note that IME most diff software shows changed lines as a
delete-and-add.  For example, diff -u
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