On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:15:16PM -0500, Henry Lin wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> What are thoughts about implementing an object-compare function in the
> unittest package? (Compare two objects recursively, attribute by
> attribute.)
Why not just ask the objects to compare themselves?
assertEqual(actual, expected)
will work if actual and expected define a sensible `__eq__` and are the
same type. If they aren't the same type, why not?
actual = MyObject(spam=1, eggs=2, cheese=3)
expected = DifferentObject(spam=1, eggs=2, cheese=3)
> This seems like a common use case in many testing scenarios,
I've never come across it. Can you give an example where defining an
`__eq__` method won't be the right solution?
--
Steven
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