OutputChecker

A class used to check the whether the actual output from a doctest example matches the expected output. OutputChecker defines two methods: check_output , which compares a given pair of outputs, and returns true if they match; and output_difference , which returns a string describing the differences between two outputs.

The OutputChecker class is accessible via the formencode.util.doctest24 module.

Methods

f check_output(self, want, got, optionflags) ...

Return True iff the actual output from an example ( got ) matches the expected output ( want ). These strings are always considered to match if they are identical; but depending on what option flags the test runner is using, several non-exact match types are also possible. See the documentation for TestRunner for more information about option flags.

f output_difference(self, example, got, optionflags) ...

Return a string describing the differences between the expected output for a given example ( example ) and the actual output ( got ). optionflags is the set of option flags used to compare want and got .

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