In message <ianem3$cu...@reader1.panix.com>, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-11-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> > wrote: > >> In message <8j8am4fk2...@mid.individual.net>, Peter Pearson wrote: >>> >>>> diff -b oldfile newfile >>> >>> Warning: "diff -b" won't detect changes in indentation. Changes in >>> indentation can change a Python program. >> >> I'm getting less and less keen on that particular feature of Python... > > Why? > > Other languages have similar problems if you remove salient bits of > syntax before comparing two source files files.
But other languages don’t make those “salient bits of syntax” invisible. I.e. they are actually “salient”. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
