New submission from anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com>:

If source/target file for unified format diff context doesn't end with new 
line, the diff should contain this marker:

\ No newline at end of file

Or else there is information loss when such patch is applied.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff#Unified_format

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 105630
nosy: techtonik
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: difflib: unified_diff produces wrong patches (again)
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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