harryos <oswald.ha...@gmail.com> writes: > On Oct 9, 4:52 pm, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > >> >> You might get more/better answers if you tell us more about the context of >> the problem and add some details that may be relevant. >> >> Peter > > I am trying to determine if a wep page is updated by x number of > characters..Mozilla firefox plugin 'update scanner' has a similar > functionality ..A user can specify the x ..I think this would be done > by reading from the same url at two different times and finding the > change in body text..I was wondering if difflib could offer something > in the way of determining the size of delta..
If you normalize the data, this might be worth trying. Make all tags appear on one single line, possibly re-order attributes so that they are in alphabetical order. Each text child git's also normalized, by replacing all whitespace with a single space. Then run difflib over these, and count the number of diffrences. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
