I normally use languages unit testing framework to get a better understanding of how a language works. Right now I want to grok the platform module;
1 #!/usr/bin/env python 2 '''a pythonic factor''' 3 import unittest 4 import platform 5 6 class TestPyfactorTestCase(unittest.TestCase): 7 def setUp(self): 8 '''setting up stuff''' 13 14 def testplatformbuiltins(self): 15 '''platform.__builtins__.blah ''' 16 self.assertEquals(platform.__builtins__.__class__, "<type 'd ict'>") 17 18 19 def tearDown(self): 20 print 'cleaning stuff up' 21 22 if __name__ == "__main__": 23 unittest.main() Is there an error in my syntax? Why is my test failing? Line 16. python stfu/testing/test_pyfactor.py Fcleaning stuff up ====================================================================== FAIL: platform.__builtins__.blah ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "stfu/testing/test_pyfactor.py", line 16, in testplatformbuiltins self.assertEquals(platform.__builtins__.__class__, "<type 'dict'>") AssertionError: <type 'dict'> != "<type 'dict'>" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 1 test in 0.000s FAILED (failures=1) -- John Maclean MSc. (DIC) Bsc. (Hons),Core Linux Systems Engineering,07739 171 531 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list