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''', options=[ '', '', '']) # Then assertEqualHTML( htmlActual, '''Test
''') # adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8006909/pretty-print-assertequal-for-html-strings def assertEqualHTML(string1, string2, file1='', file2=''): u''' Compare two unicode strings containing HTML. A human friendly diff goes to logging.error() if they are not equal, and an exception gets raised. ''' from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs import difflib def short(mystr): max = 20 if len(mystr) > max: return mystr[:max] return mystr p = [] for mystr, file in [(string1, file1), (string2, file2)]: if not isinstance(mystr, str): raise Exception(u'string ist not unicode: %r %s' % (short(mystr), file)) soup = bs(mystr, 'lxml') pretty = soup.prettify() p.append(pretty) if p[0] != p[1]: for line in difflib.unified_diff(p[0].splitlines(), p[1].splitlines(), fromfile=file1, tofile=file2): print(line) print(p[0], ' != ', p[1]) raise Exception('Not equal %s %s' % (file1, file2))