[issue7032] Make assertMultilineEqual default for unicode string comparison in

Michael Foord report at bugs.python.org
Fri Oct 2 12:15:35 CEST 2009


Michael Foord <michael at voidspace.org.uk> added the comment:

Because diffing binary data isn't useful...

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.

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