[New-bugs-announce] [issue15810] assertSequenceEqual should be fired when comparing sequences

[Florent Xicluna]

New submission from Florent Xicluna:

When writing unittest, I noticed that I need to uses assertSequenceEqual explicitly when comparing sequences of different kinds.

If I only use the plain assertEqual, it does not generate pretty diffs.

On second thought, I think it could be fixed in unittest to use assertSequenceEqual when isinstance(arg, (tuple, list)) or isinstance(arg, collections.Sequence) is True.

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components: Library (Lib), Tests
messages: 169372
nosy: flox
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: assertSequenceEqual should be fired when comparing sequences
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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