From bd32ce1c3520a1b66dc48b6759184e93f7d34ba1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bwarsaw <>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:11:59 +0000
Subject: Add ndiff hack for better error reporting of long text.

---
 tests/TestBase.py | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'tests')

diff --git a/tests/TestBase.py b/tests/TestBase.py
index 816abaa2..841a9e39 100644
--- a/tests/TestBase.py
+++ b/tests/TestBase.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2001,2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -19,15 +19,34 @@
 
 import os
 import shutil
+import difflib
 import unittest
+from cStringIO import StringIO
 
 from Mailman import MailList
 from Mailman import Utils
 from Mailman import mm_cfg
 
+NL = '\n'
+
 
 
 class TestBase(unittest.TestCase):
+    if hasattr(difflib, 'ndiff'):
+        # Python 2.2 and beyond
+        def ndiffAssertEqual(self, first, second):
+            """Like failUnlessEqual except use ndiff for readable output."""
+            if first <> second:
+                sfirst = str(first)
+                ssecond = str(second)
+                diff = difflib.ndiff(sfirst.splitlines(), ssecond.splitlines())
+                fp = StringIO()
+                print >> fp, NL, NL.join(diff)
+                raise self.failureException, fp.getvalue()
+    else:
+        # Python 2.1
+        ndiffAssertEqual = unittest.TestCase.assertEqual
+
     def setUp(self):
         mlist = MailList.MailList()
         mlist.Create('_xtest', 'test@dom.ain', 'xxxxx')
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