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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/test/backunittest.py b/test/backunittest.py
index 3e521e5a..f606185f 100644
--- a/test/backunittest.py
+++ b/test/backunittest.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class TestCase(unittest.TestCase):
raise self.failureException("%r doesn't match %r" % (s, regex))
if _need('assertMultiLineEqual'):
- def assertMultiLineEqual(self, first, second):
+ def assertMultiLineEqual(self, first, second, msg=None):
"""Assert that two multi-line strings are equal.
If they aren't, show a nice diff.
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ class TestCase(unittest.TestCase):
'Second argument is not a string')
if first != second:
- msg = ''.join(difflib.ndiff(first.splitlines(True),
+ message = ''.join(difflib.ndiff(first.splitlines(True),
second.splitlines(True)))
- self.fail("Multi-line strings are unequal:\n" + msg)
+ if msg:
+ message += " : " + msg
+ self.fail("Multi-line strings are unequal:\n" + message)