Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Because diffing binary data isn't useful...
But often it's non-binary data ;) > This is the reason that assertMultilineEqual isn't already the default > for comparing strings - because in Python 2 when you have strings you > don't know if the intention is for them to contain textual information > or binary information. You could have a heuristic which counts the number of "\n" bytes and, if there are more than 1/80th of them, you're likely to have some text. (80 being the typical max line length) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7032> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
