Python's difflib module in TypeScript

• get_close_matches
• ndiff

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Upstream Surface Inventory 2/6 shipped • 3 next 33%

Namespace-level inventory for Python 3.12: what we already ship, what we may still want, and what we intentionally skip or keep.

difflib

Python 3.12 · Catalog source: version-pinned source manifest python:3.12:difflib

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difflib

Shipped (2)

• get_close_matches
• ndiff

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Sequence-diff helpers are high-value portability targets.

• context_diff
• restore
• unified_diff

Explicit non-goals (1)

• diff_bytes Skip Byte-oriented diffing does not fit Locutus' current plain-value model.

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