test_assertion_long.py

from nose.tools import assert_equal

a = []
b = []
for i in xrange(1000):
    a.append(i)
    b.append(i)

a.append('a')


def test_assert_equal():
    assert_equal(a, b)

"""
nose.config: INFO: Ignoring files matching ['^\\.', '^_', '^setup\\.py$']
test_assertion.test_assert_equal ... FAIL

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FAIL: test_assertion.test_assert_equal
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/kauli/common/python27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose/case.py", line 197, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "/kauli/dsp/test_assertion.py", line 13, in test_assert_equal
    assert_equal(a, b)
AssertionError: Lists differ: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,... != [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,...

First list contains 1 additional elements.
First extra element 1000:
a

Diff is 7924 characters long. Set self.maxDiff to None to see it.

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Ran 1 test in 0.011s

FAILED (failures=1)
"""