A better unittest

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Terry Reedy:
  [...]
> I like having the actual values too.  It should make debugging an
> unexpected failure easier.  But what if each value is more that a few
> bytes?  Example (from my future plans): two lists of all permutations
> of range(8), one produced by an obvious recursion and the other by a
> much less obvious iteration.

Now and then I replace
    self.assertEquals(longlist1, longlist2)
with
    map(self.assertEquals, longlist1, longlist2)

It's not quite ideal; in some cases it would be nice to see the
index of the mismatch too, for example.

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Steven Taschuk                          staschuk at telusplanet.net
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