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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-08-12 22:25:01 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-08-12 22:25:01 (GMT)
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SF patch #445412 extract ndiff functionality to difflib, from
David Goodger.
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@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.2a2?
Tests
+- regrtest.py now knows which tests are expected to be skipped on some
+ platforms, allowing to give clearer test result output.
+
- Several new tests in the standard test suite, with special thanks to
Nick Mathewson.
@@ -14,6 +17,10 @@ Core
Library
+- New class Differ and new functions ndiff() and restore() in difflib.py.
+ These package the algorithms used by the popular Tools/scripts/ndiff.py,
+ for progammatic reuse.
+
- New function xml.sax.saxutils.quoteattr(): Quote an XML attribute
value using the minimal quoting required for the value; more
reliable than using xml.sax.saxutils.escape() for attribute values.