Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
This appears to be one of at least three duplicate issues: #1528074, #2986, and
#4622. I am closing two, leaving 2986 open, and merging the nearly disjoint
nosy lists. (If no longer interested, you can delete yourself from 2986.)
#1711800 appears to be slight
Jan added the comment:
hi all,
just got bitten by this, so i took the time to reiterate the issue.
according to the docs:
http://docs.python.org/library/difflib.html
find_longest_match() should return the longest matching string:
"If isjunk was omitted or None, find_longest_match() returns
