On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:44:26 +0100 Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> wrote: > Hi, > > > changeset: 68921:11dc3f270594 > > user: Thomas Wouters <tho...@python.org> > > date: Fri Mar 25 11:42:37 2011 +0100 > > summary: > > Revert the Lib/test/test_bigmem.py changes from commit 17891566a478 (and a > > few other assertEqual tests that snuck in), and expand the docstrings and > > comments explaining why and how these tests are supposed to work. > > Your commit message does not explain why you reverted the changes. The > specific assert* methods give more useful messages than assertEqual in > case of failure.
Because they don't go well with huge inputs? >>> s = "x" * (2**29) >>> case.assertEqual(s + "a", s + "b") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/unittest/case.py", line 643, in assertEqual assertion_func(first, second, msg=msg) File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/unittest/case.py", line 984, in assertMultiLineEqual secondlines = [second + '\n'] MemoryError (of course, the functions could just be fixed) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
