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Author	Dhara
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Date	2014-01-23.09:39:36
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Message-id	<1390469977.33.0.983072297482.issue20362@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Various assert methods added in version 2.7 ignore the longMessage attribute: http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestCase.longMessage For example when matching regular expressions using unittest.TestCase.assertRegexpMatches, the following error is generated: AssertionError: <custom short message>: '<regexp>' not found in '<text>' Since longMessage is ignored, and the text to be matched can be pages long, the error messages are impossibly long. [See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21157905/suppress-supplementary-error-message-from-unit-test]

Various assert methods added in version 2.7 ignore the longMessage attribute:
http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestCase.longMessage

For example when matching regular expressions using unittest.TestCase.assertRegexpMatches, the following error is generated:

AssertionError: <custom short message>: '<regexp>' not found in '<text>'

Since longMessage is ignored, and the text to be matched can be pages long, the error messages are impossibly long.

[See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21157905/suppress-supplementary-error-message-from-unit-test]

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