bpo-41110: Fixed lib2to3 reporting some unchanged files as needing modification #21296
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This changes prevents lib2to3 fixers from changing the tree unnecessarily, which results in no visible diff and the file still being reported as needing modifications.
This partially addresses an issue in
python-modernizewhere a non-zero exit code is returned even when no changes to files need to be made: PyCQA/modernize#161Given that lib2to3 is on its way out, I don't know if this should be fixed in 3.8 and 3.9 only?
https://bugs.python.org/issue41110