ysj.ray <ysj....@gmail.com> added the comment:

Since if one of the two comparing files is empty, gnu diff regards the 
beginning line of differences as line 0 (there is not any lines), but difflib 
regards it as line 1(there is a line, but empty). Not sure weather is correct 
since the practice usage of diff output is feeding it to "patch" program which 
determine the different line location mostly based on context identical lines 
instead of the line numbers in the hunk headers, so it doesn't matter weather 
it's line 0 or line 1. But it is still better to keep consist with gnu diff.

In context_diff() it is correct since if there is less then 2 different lines 
in a hunk, only ending line number is display in hunk header.

Here is a patch which fix this.

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keywords: +patch
nosy: +ysj.ray
type:  -> behavior
versions: +Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21539/issue_11747.diff

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