difflib confusion

[krishnakant Mane]

On 23/01/2008, Paul Hankin <paul.hankin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 22, 6:57 pm, "krishnakant Mane" <researchb... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hello all,
> > I have a bit of a confusing question.
> > firstly I wanted a library which can do an svn like diff with two files.
> > let's say I have file1 and file2 where file2 contains some thing which
> > file1 does not have.  now if I do readlines() on both the files, I
> > have a list of all the lines.
> > I now want to do a diff and find out which word is added or deleted or
> changed.
> > and that too on which character, if not at least want to know the word
> > that has the change.
> > any ideas please?
>
> Have a look at difflib in the standard library.
>
I am aware of the difflib library but still can't figure out.
I know that differences in two lines can be got but how to get it between words?
regards,
Krishna
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