OK I took the code I offered here (tweaked in reaction to some comments) and put up a recipe on the Python Cookbook. I'll allow a week or so for more comment, and then possibly pursue adding this to unittest.
Here is where the recipe is, for those who want to comment further (in
either that forum or this one):
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/466288
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