Commit 2897e383 authored by Andrew M. Kuchling's avatar Andrew M. Kuchling

Add paragraph about difflib suggested by David Goodger

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% $Id$ % $Id$
\title{What's New in Python 2.2} \title{What's New in Python 2.2}
\release{0.08} \release{0.09}
\author{A.M. Kuchling} \author{A.M. Kuchling}
\authoraddress{\email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}} \authoraddress{\email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}}
\begin{document} \begin{document}
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generating e-mail messages. (Contributed by Barry Warsaw, and generating e-mail messages. (Contributed by Barry Warsaw, and
arising out of his work on Mailman.) arising out of his work on Mailman.)
\item The \module{difflib} module now contains a new \class{Differ}
class for producing human-readable lists of changes (a ``delta'')
between two sequences of lines of text. There are also two
generator functions, \function{ndiff()} and \function{restore()},
which respectively return a delta from two sequences, or one of the
original sequences from a delta. (Grunt work contributed by David
Goodger, from ndiff.py code by Tim Peters who then did the
generatorization.)
\item New constants \constant{ascii_letters}, \item New constants \constant{ascii_letters},
\constant{ascii_lowercase}, and \constant{ascii_uppercase} were \constant{ascii_lowercase}, and \constant{ascii_uppercase} were
added to the \module{string} module. There were several modules in added to the \module{string} module. There were several modules in
...@@ -1395,7 +1404,7 @@ to experiment with these modules can uncomment them manually. ...@@ -1395,7 +1404,7 @@ to experiment with these modules can uncomment them manually.
The author would like to thank the following people for offering The author would like to thank the following people for offering
suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this
article: Fred Bremmer, Keith Briggs, Andrew Dalke, Fred~L. Drake, Jr., article: Fred Bremmer, Keith Briggs, Andrew Dalke, Fred~L. Drake, Jr.,
Carel Fellinger, Mark Hammond, Stephen Hansen, Michael Hudson, Jack Carel Fellinger, David Goodger, Mark Hammond, Stephen Hansen, Michael Hudson, Jack
Jansen, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg, Martin von L\"owis, Fredrik Lundh, Jansen, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg, Martin von L\"owis, Fredrik Lundh,
Michael McLay, Nick Mathewson, Paul Moore, Tim Peters, Jens Quade, Tom Michael McLay, Nick Mathewson, Paul Moore, Tim Peters, Jens Quade, Tom
Reinhardt, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum, Greg Ward. Reinhardt, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum, Greg Ward.
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