On 25 March 2011 17:09, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:44:26 +0100
Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > changeset:   68921:11dc3f270594
> > user:        Thomas Wouters <thomas@python.org>
> > date:        Fri Mar 25 11:42:37 2011 +0100
> > summary:
> >   Revert the Lib/test/test_bigmem.py changes from commit 17891566a478 (and a
> > few other assertEqual tests that snuck in), and expand the docstrings and
> > comments explaining why and how these tests are supposed to work.
>
> Your commit message does not explain why you reverted the changes.  The
> specific assert* methods give more useful messages than assertEqual in
> case of failure.

Because they don't go well with huge inputs?

>>> s = "x" * (2**29)
>>> case.assertEqual(s + "a", s + "b")
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/unittest/case.py", line 643,
in assertEqual assertion_func(first, second, msg=msg)
 File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/unittest/case.py", line 984,
in assertMultiLineEqual secondlines = [second + '\n']
MemoryError


http://bugs.python.org/issue11763

Michael
 

(of course, the functions could just be fixed)



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