Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com> added the comment: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Michael Foord <rep...@bugs.python.org>wrote:
> The type check in assertEqual, that delegates to the different comparison > methods, is strict because we can't know that using the error message > algorithms is sane for arbitrary subclasses - all we can know is whether an > equality comparison fails or succeeds. > So would you allow me to register a method for type "basestring" and have assertEqual dispatch to that method when both arguments are of this type ? That way at least I could customize the behavior in sub classes. Thanks, Jaap ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14025> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
