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  r81767 | michael.foord | 2010-06-05 22:57:03 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Documentation updates for issues 8302 and 8351 (truncating excessive diffs in unittest failure messages and reporting SkipTest exceptions in setUpClass and setUpModule as skips rather than errors).
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.. versionadded:: 3.1
.. attribute:: maxDiff
This attribute controls the maximum length of diffs output by assert
methods that report diffs on failure. It defaults to 80*8 characters.
Assert methods affected by this attribute are
:meth:`assertSequenceEqual` (including all the sequence comparison
methods that delegate to it), :meth:`assertDictEqual` and
:meth:`assertMultiLineEqual`.
Setting ``maxDiff`` to None means that there is no maximum length of
diffs.
.. versionadded:: 3.2
Testing frameworks can use the following methods to collect information on
the test:
@ -1862,7 +1877,9 @@ then you must call up to them yourself. The implementations in
If an exception is raised during a ``setUpClass`` then the tests in the class
are not run and the ``tearDownClass`` is not run. Skipped classes will not
have ``setUpClass`` or ``tearDownClass`` run.
have ``setUpClass`` or ``tearDownClass`` run. If the exception is a
``SkipTest`` exception then the class will be reported as having been skipped
instead of as an error.
setUpModule and tearDownModule
@ -1877,7 +1894,9 @@ These should be implemented as functions::
closeConnection()
If an exception is raised in a ``setUpModule`` then none of the tests in the
module will be run and the ``tearDownModule`` will not be run.
module will be run and the ``tearDownModule`` will not be run. If the exception is a
``SkipTest`` exception then the module will be reported as having been skipped
instead of as an error.
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