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ignore whitespace during comparisons
| author | Catherine Devlin <catherine.devlin@gmail.com> |
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| date | Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:38:26 -0400 |
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| 179 a ``cmd2``-based app is copied from the screen and pasted into a text | 179 a ``cmd2``-based app is copied from the screen and pasted into a text |
| 180 file, ``transcript.txt``, then a transcript test can be run against it:: | 180 file, ``transcript.txt``, then a transcript test can be run against it:: |
| 181 | 181 |
| 182 python app.py --test transcript.txt | 182 python app.py --test transcript.txt |
| 183 | 183 |
| 184 Any deviations between the output prescribed in ``transcript.txt`` and | 184 Any non-whitespace deviations between the output prescribed in ``transcript.txt`` and |
| 185 the actual output from a fresh run of the application will be reported | 185 the actual output from a fresh run of the application will be reported |
| 186 as a unit test failure. | 186 as a unit test failure. (Whitespace is ignored during the comparison.) |
| 187 | |
| 188 Regular expressions can be embedded in the transcript inside paired ``/`` | |
| 189 slashes. These regular expressions should not include any whitespace | |
| 190 expressions. | |
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