[Python-ideas] Testcase.assertsequenceequal() suggestion

[Michael Foord]

On 8 April 2010 21:47, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynooghe at 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.

All the best,

Michael Foord


>
> Regards
> Floris
>
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