Unit testing errors (testing the platform module)

[John Maclean]

I normally use  languages unit testing framework to get a better
understanding of how a language works. Right now I want to grok the
platform module;


 1 #!/usr/bin/env python
  2 '''a pythonic factor'''
  3 import unittest
  4 import platform
  5
  6 class TestPyfactorTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
  7     def setUp(self):
  8         '''setting up stuff'''
 13
 14     def testplatformbuiltins(self): 15
'''platform.__builtins__.blah '''
 16         self.assertEquals(platform.__builtins__.__class__, "<type 'd
    ict'>")
 17
 18
 19     def tearDown(self):
 20         print 'cleaning stuff up'
 21
 22 if __name__ == "__main__":
 23     unittest.main()


Is there an error in my syntax? Why is my test failing? Line 16.


python stfu/testing/test_pyfactor.py
Fcleaning stuff up

======================================================================
FAIL: platform.__builtins__.blah
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "stfu/testing/test_pyfactor.py", line 16, in testplatformbuiltins
    self.assertEquals(platform.__builtins__.__class__, "<type 'dict'>")
AssertionError: <type 'dict'> != "<type 'dict'>"

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.000s

FAILED (failures=1)

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John Maclean MSc. (DIC) Bsc. (Hons),Core Linux Systems Engineering,07739
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