unittest: unhelpful truncating of long strings.

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3/5
Estimated time
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Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
testing

Research direction

The issue points to unittest's handling of long strings but names no file, entry point, or test. Start by locating the relevant unittest behavior and existing tests, then clarify the expected truncation and verify that the resulting output is useful.

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Description

3.7 (EOL) 3.8 (EOL) 3.9 (EOL) tests type-bug
BPO 21820
Nosy @ncoghlan, @larryhastings, @rbtcollins, @cjw296, @ezio-melotti, @bitdancer, @voidspace, @serhiy-storchaka

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assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2014-06-21.10:34:46.122>
labels = ['3.7', '3.8', 'type-bug', 'tests', '3.9']
title = 'unittest: unhelpful truncating of long strings.'
updated_at = <Date 2019-12-06.23:08:38.949>
user = 'https://github.com/cjw296'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2019-12-06.23:08:38.949>
actor = 'Ella Sharakanski'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Tests']
creation = <Date 2014-06-21.10:34:46.122>
creator = 'cjw296'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 21820
keywords = ['3.4regression']
message_count = 12.0
messages = ['221167', '221169', '221170', '221345', '221355', '221356', '221361', '221397', '221398', '221473', '341885', '357953']
nosy_count = 9.0
nosy_names = ['ncoghlan', 'larry', 'rbcollins', 'cjw296', 'ezio.melotti', 'r.david.murray', 'michael.foord', 'serhiy.storchaka', 'Ella Sharakanski']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = None
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue21820'
versions = ['Python 3.7', 'Python 3.8', 'Python 3.9']

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