Paul Fitzpatrick

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Thanks for reporting that @wollgarten. The diff in this case is definitely unhelpful. daff does not currently have a way to deal gracefully with columns that have the same name....

Thanks for reporting this @supervitis, and providing an example. Something definitely looks wrong. If I turn off ordering during diffing and patching, things work, but with ordering on (the default),...

Using daff as part of thesis is totally cool (makes me v happy), it is free/open source in any case. What could be useful is paring this down to the...

Understood. For the flags, you'd need to set ordered = false when the diff is being generated, not just when patching. On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 1:24 PM, David...

I wrote a program to randomly strip out lines from the CSVs to find minimal examples that tickle a problem. An example: Others are similar. Duplicated rows are definitely hard...

Thanks for reporting this @SonOfLilit. For `daff.py`, a hack to make this work is to edit it by hand, replacing `codecs.open(path,"r","utf-8")` with `codecs.open(path,"r","iso-8859-1")`. With that change, I see a diff...

Ok, sounds like a parameter is important since there'll always be those who need it. I'm not sure I can completely avoid touching cell contents. There are options for whitespace-insensitive...

This does sound useful @davidedelvento. Some control over how comparisons are made does seem in scope for a diff tool (e.g. whitespace sensitivity #36). For development, the main step is...

Ok with the dependency if it saves you significant work. I do have to keep my eye on the final size of daff.js for those using it in websites; file...