[TIP] Which is the proper way to test an "unordered list"

[Herman Sheremetyev]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Michael Rene Armida <me at marmida.com> wrote:
> I find that sets are sufficient for this purpose, so your original:
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>> >    assert a_transition.next_states == ["a state","another state"]
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>  Would become:
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>     assert set(a_transition.next_states) == set(["a state","another state"])

If sets were appropriate for this then the data structure should be a
set to start with. Otherwise the test would happily succeed for
set(['x', 'x']) == set(['x']). The OP's issue might actually call for
sets so this may be fine in this case but is not a good way to test
equality of unordered lists.

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