Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert Collins.
[python.git] / Lib / unittest / util.py
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1 """Various utility functions."""
3 def strclass(cls):
4 return "%s.%s" % (cls.__module__, cls.__name__)
6 def sorted_list_difference(expected, actual):
7 """Finds elements in only one or the other of two, sorted input lists.
9 Returns a two-element tuple of lists. The first list contains those
10 elements in the "expected" list but not in the "actual" list, and the
11 second contains those elements in the "actual" list but not in the
12 "expected" list. Duplicate elements in either input list are ignored.
13 """
14 i = j = 0
15 missing = []
16 unexpected = []
17 while True:
18 try:
19 e = expected[i]
20 a = actual[j]
21 if e < a:
22 missing.append(e)
23 i += 1
24 while expected[i] == e:
25 i += 1
26 elif e > a:
27 unexpected.append(a)
28 j += 1
29 while actual[j] == a:
30 j += 1
31 else:
32 i += 1
33 try:
34 while expected[i] == e:
35 i += 1
36 finally:
37 j += 1
38 while actual[j] == a:
39 j += 1
40 except IndexError:
41 missing.extend(expected[i:])
42 unexpected.extend(actual[j:])
43 break
44 return missing, unexpected