[Python-ideas] Testcase.assertsequenceequal() suggestion

[Michael Foord]

On 8 April 2010 23:33, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Apr 8, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
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> On 8 April 2010 21:47, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hi
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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.
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> That sounds useful. Please post a feature request on the bug tracker -
> preferably with a patch including tests.
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> +1
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> Perhaps this can be considered a bug fix -- spewing a core dump in the test
> summary not considered helpful.
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I agree. Failure messages should be useful...

Michael



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> Raymond
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