Can difflib be used to make a plagiarism detection program?

I am trying to figure this out...

Can the difflib开发者_StackOverflow社区.* library in Python be used to make some kind of plagiarism detection program? If so how?

Maybe anyone could help me to figure out this question.

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It could be used, but you're going to face all the same general issues you find in automated plagiarism detection. It might give you a little bit of a head start on implementing some of the algorithms you need, but I don't think it is likely to take you very far.

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The short answer is yes.

The long answer is that it will be a lot of work and you'll probably find that you'd be better using another language or an off-the-shelf tool, depending on the vast amount of sources you're likely to be referencing.