On Apr 8, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

On 8 April 2010 21:47, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynooghe@gmail.com> wrote: Hi

I've found myself modifying the unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual() method to suppress the diff of the two sequences if the diff is more then a few lines and was wondering if this was something worth considering in the stdlib in some form or another. The resulting message still contains useful information since it still prints the first differing elements, and it avoids flooding the screen with lots of data for long sequences.

That sounds useful. Please post a feature request on the bug tracker - preferably with a patch including tests.

+1 Perhaps this can be considered a bug fix -- spewing a core dump in the test summary not considered helpful. Raymond

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 11:15:32PM +0100, Michael Foord wrote:

On 8 April 2010 21:47, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynooghe@gmail.com>wrote:

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I've found myself modifying the unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual() method to suppress the diff of the two sequences if the diff is more then a few lines and was wondering if this was something worth considering in the stdlib in some form or another. The resulting message still contains useful information since it still prints the first differing elements, and it avoids flooding the screen with lots of data for long sequences.

That sounds useful. Please post a feature request on the bug tracker - preferably with a patch including tests.

http://bugs.python.org/issue8351 Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org

On Apr 8, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

On 8 April 2010 21:47, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynooghe@gmail.com> wrote: Hi

I've found myself modifying the unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual() method to suppress the diff of the two sequences if the diff is more then a few lines and was wondering if this was something worth considering in the stdlib in some form or another. The resulting message still contains useful information since it still prints the first differing elements, and it avoids flooding the screen with lots of data for long sequences.

That sounds useful. Please post a feature request on the bug tracker - preferably with a patch including tests.

+1 Perhaps this can be considered a bug fix -- spewing a core dump in the test summary not considered helpful. Raymond

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 11:15:32PM +0100, Michael Foord wrote:

On 8 April 2010 21:47, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynooghe@gmail.com>wrote:

...

I've found myself modifying the unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual() method to suppress the diff of the two sequences if the diff is more then a few lines and was wondering if this was something worth considering in the stdlib in some form or another. The resulting message still contains useful information since it still prints the first differing elements, and it avoids flooding the screen with lots of data for long sequences.

That sounds useful. Please post a feature request on the bug tracker - preferably with a patch including tests.

http://bugs.python.org/issue8351 Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org