[TIP] About assertMultilineEqual

[Alfredo Deza]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>wrote:

>  On 17/08/2010 16:53, Alfredo Deza wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>wrote:
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>>  On 16/08/2010 02:21, Ned Batchelder wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>>  If you use unittest2 then you get assertMultilineEqual and smarter
>> assertEqual behaviour.
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>>  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:
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>  tests_require = ['nose', 'webtest']
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>  Or similar packages (e.g. pytest)
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> 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).
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> ahh got it... so regardless of doing " install_requires = ['unittes2'] " in
Python2.7 and later, it will still work... I thought unittest2 was
*only* for extending compatibility to older versions of Python.

Thanks for the response!



> Michael Foord
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>> Michael
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>> --Ned.
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>> On 8/15/2010 8:42 PM, Alfredo Deza wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>>  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)?
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>>  I think nose and pytest may have already solved that, but is there an
>> easy way that doesn't require added dependencies?
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>>  Thanks!
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