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authorMichael Foord <fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk>2010-12-03 00:53:09 (GMT)
committerMichael Foord <fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk>2010-12-03 00:53:09 (GMT)
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Issue 7911: unittest.TestCase.longMessage defaults to True for improved failure messages by default
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to ``True`` allows you to have a custom error message in addition to the
normal one.
- This attribute defaults to ``False``, meaning that a custom message passed
- to an assert method will silence the normal message.
+ This attribute defaults to ``True``. If set to False then a custom message
+ passed to an assert method will silence the normal message.
The class setting can be overridden in individual tests by assigning an
instance attribute to ``True`` or ``False`` before calling the assert methods.