STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> The downside of using backslashreplace (or repr, for that matter) is
> that it does not preserve lengths, so the diff markers can get
> misaligned. I find that an acceptable tradeoff, but 'replace' is
> another option that preserves lengths, at least more often.
'replace' loose important informations: if the test is about the unicode string
content, we will be unable to see the error data.
Result of the first example with my patch (backslashreplace):
======================================================================
FAIL: test_fffd (__main__.Foo)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "x.py", line 3, in test_fffd
def test_fffd(self): self.assertEqual(u'\ufffd', u'\ufffd\ufffd')
AssertionError:
- \ufffd+ \ufffd\ufffd
Result of the first example with 'replace' error handler:
======================================================================
FAIL: test_fffd (__main__.Foo)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "x.py", line 3, in test_fffd
def test_fffd(self): self.assertEqual(u'\ufffd', u'\ufffd\ufffd')
AssertionError:
- ?+ ??
(but this example is irrevelant because U+FFFD is the unicode replacement
character :-D)
If nobody complains about my patch, I will commit it to Python trunk (only).
You can still reimplement fail() method to encode the message using a more
revelant encoding and/or error handler.
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