> I'd really like to be able to use Mox's comparitors in assertions, as
> well at in mock setup, so, for instance, I could do something like:

> self.mox.AssertThat(revisions, mox.SameElementsAs([123, 456, 789]))

> Whereas I think I have to do:

> self.assertEquals(revisions, [123, 456, 789])

> This doesn't read as well, and is more fragile. The right set of
> Comparitors  - ContainsAllOf, ContainsInOrder, ContainsNoneOf for
> example - makes for expressive tests.

> Hmmm. Perhaps this doesn't belong in Mox, though. EasyMock uses
> Hamcrest to provide this sort of functionality, so perhaps Mox needs
> Spamcrest! There's a project to keep me out of trouble for a while.

> Thoughts?

> Cheers,
> Simon B.
> si...@brunningonline.net
> http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/
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> Hi Simon.

> In the past, I extended unittest.TestCase for my project and added
> things like

> def assertSetEquals(self, left, right, msg)
>   self.assertEquals(set(self), set(right),
>     msg or ('Iterables %s and %r do not contain different elements' %
> (left, right))

> I guess you could implement the assertions mentioned below using
> list() constructors and set operations.

> HTH
> Manuel

> Am 19.08.2008 um 21:38 schrieb Simon Brunning:

>> I'd really like to be able to use Mox's comparitors in assertions, as
>> well at in mock setup, so, for instance, I could do something like:

>> self.mox.AssertThat(revisions, mox.SameElementsAs([123, 456, 789]))

>> Whereas I think I have to do:

>> self.assertEquals(revisions, [123, 456, 789])

>> This doesn't read as well, and is more fragile. The right set of
>> Comparitors  - ContainsAllOf, ContainsInOrder, ContainsNoneOf for
>> example - makes for expressive tests.

>> Hmmm. Perhaps this doesn't belong in Mox, though. EasyMock uses
>> Hamcrest to provide this sort of functionality, so perhaps Mox needs
>> Spamcrest! There's a project to keep me out of trouble for a while.

>> Thoughts?

>> Cheers,
>> Simon B.
>> si...@brunningonline.net
>> http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/
>> GTalk: simon.brunning | MSN: small_values | Yahoo: smallvalues |
>> Twitter: brunns

> def testUsingComparatorsInAssertions(self):
>   self.assertEquals(mox.IsA(str), "test string)

> ... or for your example ...

> self.assertEquals(mox.SameElementsAs([123, 456, 789]), revisions)

> I'm not sure if this is as expressive as you'd like, but it gets the
> job done. :)