Ignore Unicode vs Str, Int vs Long in Python/Django Unit Tests

Asked Jun 04 '16 at 17:40

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I'm writing unit tests for some of our code and I need to compare a JSON response with a dictionary value returned via code. The dictionary keys and some values are raw byte strings: str whereas the HTTP Response data, after json.loads have unicode keys and values. When I use self.assertDictEqual(expected, actual) I end up with a ton of differences!

It looks like json.loads can take an object_hook and return byte strings, but I was wondering if Python/Django UnitTest framework has a simpler solution.

Edit: The possible duplicate solves my original problem - I tried it and it works! Now, I'm facing a similar issue with int vs long: u'user': 86160L != u'user': 86160. Is there an intelligent comparison mechanism that accounts for these differences - basically forces conversions to unicode and long if it detects the corresponding key/value is of this type?

Also, How do you deal with these issues while writing TestCases?

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The simplest solution would be to switch to Python 3, where everything would be `str` – Antti Haapala -- Слава Україні Jun 04 '16 at 17:43
@AnttiHaapala He he, that's not an option at the moment! – rtindru Jun 04 '16 at 17:47
The wording in the questions are different, but the possible duplicate seems to cover essentialy what you want to do. – Håken Lid Jun 04 '16 at 17:51

Ignore Unicode vs Str, Int vs Long in Python/Django Unit Tests

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