[stdlib-sig] difflib on large files

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Watson, Paul <pwatson at phs.org> wrote:

> difflib appears to be very well laid out and utilizes well-known
> algorithms.
>
> The only difficulty is that it only works when everything is in memory. Is
> there any ongoing effort to allow it to work on larger files?


Not that I know of; you can try searching bugs.python.org, though, to
verify.


> Would it be better to integrate larger dataset sizes into difflib or to
> create something new such as bigdifflib?
>

This would be overkill for a new module. Patches are welcome if you would
like to propose a solution for the pre-existing difflib module.

-Brett


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