[Python-ideas] Testcase.assertsequenceequal() suggestion

[Raymond Hettinger]

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

> 
> 
> 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.
> 

+1

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


Raymond
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