On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 1:06 AM Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:

> We're not obligated to take heroic
> measures to integrate numpy arrays with unittest methods. If we can do
> so easily, sure, let's fix it.
>
> I think Ivan's suggestion that the assertSequenceEqual method fall back
> on element-by-element comparisons has some merit.
>

If there are other common types this helps with, sure. But for numpy, as
pointed out elsewhere in this thread, it would still fail for numpy arrays
of > 1 dimension.

Personally I think this is really an issue with the structure of unitest --
having a custom assertion for every possibility is intractable.

If you want to test numpy arrays, use the utilities provided by numpy.

- CHB


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