Christoph Burgmer <cburg...@ira.uka.de> added the comment: OutputChecker.check_output() seems to be responsible for comparing 'example.want' and 'got' literals and this is obviously done literally. So as "u'1'" is different to "'1'" this is reflected in the result. This gets more complicated with literals like "[u'1', u'2']" I believe. So, eval() could be used for testing for equality:
>>> repr(['1', '2']) == repr([u'1', u'2']) False but >>> eval(repr(['1', '2'])) == eval(repr([u'1', u'2'])) True doctests are already compiled and executed, but evaluating the doctest code's result is probably a security issue, so a method doing the invers of repr() could be used, that only works on variables; something like Pickle, but without its own protocol. ---------- nosy: +christoph _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3955> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
