[Tutor] Unittest

[Kent Johnson]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Oleg Oltar <oltarasenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi I am using unittest framework with selenium.
>
> When I tried this code (my verification point)
>
>         self.assertEqual(True, sel.is_text_present(u"Извените пароли не
> совпадают"), "System didn't give a correct warning about the password
> misstype")
>
>> Where u"Извените пароли не совпадают" is russian = "Sorry passwords aren't
>> equal", and sel.is_text_present - searches text string on the page
>
> The output I get in case of failure was:
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "./newaccount/Password_matching.py", line 50, in
> test_passwordMatching
>     self.assertEqual(True, sel.is_text_present(u"Извените
> пароли не Ñ Ð¾Ð²Ð¿Ð°Ð´Ð°ÑŽÑ‚"), "System didn't give a correct
> warning about the password misstype")
>
> AssertionError: System didn't give a correct warning about the password
> misstype
>
> Is there any way to get normal russian text instead of these strange D chars
> "Изве...."

I don't have the solution but maybe I can give you a useful clue. The
D characters are most likely the utf-8 encoding of the Russian text,
when displayed as if it is latin-1. So something in the system is
converting the text to utf-8 and your console probably has latin-1 or
cp1252 encoding.

Some details might help - how are you running the program - console,
IDLE...? What OS? What are the values of sys.getdefaultencoding() and
sys.stdout.encoding?

Kent