Michael Foord <mich...@voidspace.org.uk> added the comment: Because diffing binary data isn't useful...
This is the reason that assertMultilineEqual isn't already the default for comparing strings - because in Python 2 when you have strings you don't know if the intention is for them to contain textual information or binary information. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7032> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com