Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> added the comment:
safe_repr() as used internally by unittest wasn't intended to truncate by default as part of its "safety". The "safe" part is that it catches Exception and provides an alternate repr if the __repr__ raised. unittest.util.safe_repr() is a public API, just not documented. Lets take this issue to enhance it a bit and document it. Additionally as r.david.murray suggested, a way for unittest.TestCase to configure itself to enable safe_repr truncation by default would be nice. I'm currently thinking a feature similar to the class variable maxDiff. maxReprLength perhaps. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue27432> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
