Unittest - testing for filenames and filesize

[Rob Day]

On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 10:36 -0700, Tigerstyle wrote:
>         self.assertEqual(statinfo.st_size, filesize)
>     
> I'm still getting AssertionError and the error says: 1000000 !=b'
> 
> 

filesize is the character 'b' repeated one million times (the contents
of the file, in other words). statinfo.st_size is the number of bytes in
the file, i.e. 1,000,000. So when your assertEqual code checks if those
two values are equal, what do you think happens?