[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Revert the Lib/test/test_bigmem.py changes from commit 17891566a478 (and a (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Mon Apr 4 22:16:21 CEST 2011


On 25 March 2011 17:09, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:44:26 +0100 Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote: > Hi, > > > changeset: 68921:11dc3f270594 > > user: Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> > > date: Fri Mar 25 11:42:37 2011 +0100 > > summary: > > Revert the Lib/test/testbigmem.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 "", line 1, in File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/unittest/case.py", line 643, in assertEqual assertionfunc(first, second, msg=msg) File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/unittest/case.py", line 984, in assertMultiLineEqual secondlines = [second + '\n'] MemoryError http://bugs.python.org/issue11763

Michael

(of course, the functions could just be fixed)


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