Either it didn't exist at the time, or I didn't know about the diff.py that Thomas Heller mentioned in another response, so I wrote 'pyunidiff' http://unpy.net/~jepler/pyunidiff.py
ah, I guess unix 'diff'-style output was added to difflib.py in 2003, while my pyunidiff dates to 2002. Jeff
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