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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/testing/utils.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/testing/utils.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/testing/utils.py b/numpy/testing/utils.py index c27d524c9..f8f4c72a9 100644 --- a/numpy/testing/utils.py +++ b/numpy/testing/utils.py @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ Utility function to facilitate testing. import os import sys import re -import difflib import operator from inspect import isfunction from nosetester import import_nose @@ -282,6 +281,9 @@ def runstring(astr, dict): exec astr in dict def assert_string_equal(actual, desired): + # delay import of difflib to reduce startup time + import difflib + assert isinstance(actual, str),`type(actual)` assert isinstance(desired, str),`type(desired)` if re.match(r'\A'+desired+r'\Z', actual, re.M): return |