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  r76464 | senthil.kumaran | 2009-11-24 00:11:31 +0530 (Tue, 24 Nov 2009) | 4 lines

  Fix for issue1488943 - difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab
  characters.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/difflib.py b/Lib/difflib.py
index 052a627..264860e 100644
--- a/Lib/difflib.py
+++ b/Lib/difflib.py
@@ -1060,20 +1060,21 @@ class Differ:
         Example:
 
         >>> d = Differ()
-        >>> results = d._qformat('\tabcDefghiJkl\n', '\t\tabcdefGhijkl\n',
-        ...                      '  ^ ^  ^      ', '+  ^ ^  ^      ')
+        >>> results = d._qformat('\tabcDefghiJkl\n', '\tabcdefGhijkl\n',
+        ...                      '  ^ ^  ^      ', '  ^ ^  ^      ')
         >>> for line in results: print(repr(line))
         ...
         '- \tabcDefghiJkl\n'
         '? \t ^ ^  ^\n'
-        '+ \t\tabcdefGhijkl\n'
-        '? \t  ^ ^  ^\n'
+        '+ \tabcdefGhijkl\n'
+        '? \t ^ ^  ^\n'
         """
 
         # Can hurt, but will probably help most of the time.
         common = min(_count_leading(aline, "\t"),
                      _count_leading(bline, "\t"))
         common = min(common, _count_leading(atags[:common], " "))
+        common = min(common, _count_leading(btags[:common], " "))
         atags = atags[common:].rstrip()
         btags = btags[common:].rstrip()