[TIP] About assertMultilineEqual

[Alfredo Deza]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>wrote:

>  On 16/08/2010 02:21, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>
> I had to bridge this gap for coverage.py, and ended up doing it for a few
> methods, see
> http://bitbucket.org/ned/coveragepy/src/tip/test/backunittest.py
>
> But this method bothers me: the Multiline aspect has nothing to do with the
> comparison, only with the reporting of failed assertions.  Better would be
> to have assertEqual be smart enough to recognize that the arguments are
> multiline strings, and just do the right thing with them.
>
>
> If you use unittest2 then you get assertMultilineEqual and smarter
> assertEqual behaviour.
>
> If unittest2 is meant for Python versions older than 2.7, how do you go
around specifying that in a package? I usually have a:

tests_require = ['nose', 'webtest']

Or similar packages (e.g. pytest)



> Michael
>
>
> --Ned.
>
> On 8/15/2010 8:42 PM, Alfredo Deza wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  Is there anything like assertMultilineEqual<http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual>for older versions of Python (e.g. not 2.7)?
>
>  I think nose and pytest may have already solved that, but is there an
> easy way that doesn't require added dependencies?
>
>  Thanks!
>
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