py.test munging strings in asserts?

[Johnny deBris]

Timothy Grant wrote:
> 
> granted the left side of that equality could be messed up due to
> create_output() NOT doing the right thing. But the right side is
> simply the contents of the variable "text" so WHY is the first part of
> the path being substituted with "..."?
> 
Some grepping on '...' revealed that there's some string munging going
on in py/code/safe_repr.py, In py/test/terminal/terminal.py, in
TerminalSession, there's a method 'repr_locals' that uses it, I guess
you have to override that or something if you want to change this
behaviour...

Cheers,

Guido Wesdorp