[TIP] About assertMultilineEqual
Michael Foord
fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Tue Aug 17 06:55:32 PDT 2010
On 17/08/2010 16:53, Alfredo Deza wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Michael Foord
> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk <mailto: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)
unittest2 works fine with Python 2.7 (and will soon have features that
are in unittest in python 3.2 but not in 2.7).
Michael Foord
>
> 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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