New submission from Pete Zaitcev:
When using an assert such as self.assertEquals(tester(), expected), an error
message suggests wrong argument order (as in, not the order in examples in the
documentation). Apparently this is confusing enough that OpenStack even opened
a whole bunch of bugs and filed patches to swap the order in the tests:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+bug/1277104
If the code is:
import testtools
class TestConfigTrueValue(testtools.TestCase):
def test_testEquals(self):
reference = "reference-0123456789012345678901234567890123456789"
def function_under_test():
return "actual-0123456789012345678901234567890123456789"
self.assertEquals(function_under_test(), reference)
then running it yields
[zaitcev@guren xxx]$ python3 -c 'import nose; nose.main()'
F
======================================================================
FAIL: testic.TestConfigTrueValue.test_testEquals
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testtools.testresult.real._StringException: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/q/zaitcev/tmp/xxx/testic.py", line 10, in test_testEquals
self.assertEquals(function_under_test(), reference)
File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/testtools/testcase.py", line 322, in
assertEqual
self.assertThat(observed, matcher, message)
File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/testtools/testcase.py", line 417, in
assertThat
raise MismatchError(matchee, matcher, mismatch, verbose)
testtools.matchers._impl.MismatchError: !=:
reference = 'actual-0123456789012345678901234567890123456789'
actual = 'reference-0123456789012345678901234567890123456789'
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 212366
nosy: zaitcev
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Reversed order in testtools messages
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3
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<http://bugs.python.org/issue20798>
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