Pelican contains a test suite that uses Python’s UnitTest 2 [1], and working on Pelican’s source I had run that suite from time to time.

Yesterday, however, I was delighted with this:

$ unit2 discover -v

tests.test_settings (unittest2.loader.ModuleImportFailure) ... ERROR
tests.test_importer (unittest2.loader.ModuleImportFailure) ... ERROR
tests ...

Imagine in your program you compare two variables which contain strings. You are pretty sure that under certain circumstances both variables contain the same strings, — but somehow Python insists that they do not!

For a quick debug, you print out both variables and get

>>> print(s1, s2, s1 == s2)
b ...

Actually, here we already are some steps into my efforts to port Pelican [2] to Python 3, — I’ll write about the beginning steps later, promise. (Here is a first impression [3])

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