On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:36:45 +0200, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:02:27 -0400 > "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > > > > I don't disagree with this simplification, but given that you all want > > to pare down the unittest API, I'd be interested in your opinions on > > issue 10164. Because the assertBytesEqual method takes an optional > > argument, it seems like it would need to be documented, even though > > it would in a lot of cases just be used through assertEqual. > > The optional argument doesn't look very useful. I imagine there are > plenty of special cases where you could need custom splitting of > bytestrings on a given byte, a regexp pattern, or along some fixed > chunk length, but they are special cases.
Well, I have a specific special case I need it for: comparing byte strings that are wire-format email messages. Considering how much of a pain it was to get right, I'd hate to see people have to reimplement the guts of it for each special case. Maybe a 'make_chunks' argument that takes a function that returns a list? -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com _______________________________________________ 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
