On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> wrote: > On 2010-10-09, harryos <oswald.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What I meant by number of characters was the number of edits happened >> between the two versions.. > > Consider two strings: > > Hello, world! > > Yo, there. > > What is the "number of edits happened between the two versions"? It could > be: > > * Zero. I just typed them both from scratch, no editing occurred between > them. > * Two. Two words are different. > * Ten or so -- counting changed characters. > * Three. Two words and a punctuation mark are different. > > In other words, your problem here is that you haven't actually described > what you want. Slow down. Think! Describe what you want clearly enough > that any other person who reads your description can always come up with > the same answer you would for a given set of inputs. > > -s
He mentioned L distance earlier, I'm sure he means 'number of edits' in that context... Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
