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  • Committer: John Arbash Meinel
  • Date: 2009-11-28 21:54:08 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 4842.
  • Revision ID: john@arbash-meinel.com-20091128215408-d9jtxbxyiklmiurh
Add a static_tuple.as_tuples() helper.

It will pass over an iterable, and ensure that it and all children
are simple tuples. Useful for formatting.
Also fix a small bug in the reference checking code that assumes
the values passed in are the same type, but sometimes they are a
list rather than a tuple.

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that only certain files should be compared.
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Performance can be further improved by caching comparisons to avoid repeating
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them.  Caching could potentially be performed by ``diff`` and perhaps by
 
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them.  Caching could potentially be performed by ``diff`` and perhaps by 
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``merge``.  Merge is aware of the relationship of a text merge's result to
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the THIS value, and the THIS value is generally the basis value.  So the
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comparison is latent, but present.  The only issue is extracting it.