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<h2>Classes</h2><ul><li><a href="#Failure">Failure</a></li></ul>
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<h1>nose: nose.failure</h1>
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<p>Highlighted methods are defined in this class.</p><a name="Failure"></a><div class="cls section"><span class="cls name">Failure</span> (unittest.TestCase)<div class="cls doc"><h3>Methods</h3><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">_TestCase__exc_info<span class="args">(self)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Return a version of sys.exc_info() with the traceback frame
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minimised; usually the top level of the traceback frame is not
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">__call__<span class="args">(self, *args, **kwds)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"></div></div><div class="method section"><span class="method name">__init__<span class="args">(self, exc_class, exc_val, tb=None)</span></span><div class="method doc"></div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">assertAlmostEqual<span class="args">(self, first, second, places=7, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail if the two objects are unequal as determined by their
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difference rounded to the given number of decimal places
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(default 7) and comparing to zero.</p>
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<p>Note that decimal places (from zero) are usually not the same
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as significant digits (measured from the most signficant digit).</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">assertAlmostEquals<span class="args">(self, first, second, places=7, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail if the two objects are unequal as determined by their
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difference rounded to the given number of decimal places
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(default 7) and comparing to zero.</p>
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<p>Note that decimal places (from zero) are usually not the same
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as significant digits (measured from the most signficant digit).</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">assertEqual<span class="args">(self, first, second, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail if the two objects are unequal as determined by the '=='
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">assertEquals<span class="args">(self, first, second, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail if the two objects are unequal as determined by the '=='
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">assertFalse<span class="args">(self, expr, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail the test if the expression is true.</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">assertNotAlmostEqual<span class="args">(self, first, second, places=7, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail if the two objects are equal as determined by their
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difference rounded to the given number of decimal places
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(default 7) and comparing to zero.</p>
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<p>Note that decimal places (from zero) are usually not the same
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as significant digits (measured from the most signficant digit).</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">assertNotAlmostEquals<span class="args">(self, first, second, places=7, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail if the two objects are equal as determined by their
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difference rounded to the given number of decimal places
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(default 7) and comparing to zero.</p>
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<p>Note that decimal places (from zero) are usually not the same
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as significant digits (measured from the most signficant digit).</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">assertNotEqual<span class="args">(self, first, second, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail if the two objects are equal as determined by the '=='
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">assertNotEquals<span class="args">(self, first, second, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail if the two objects are equal as determined by the '=='
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">assertRaises<span class="args">(self, excClass, callableObj, *args, **kwargs)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail unless an exception of class excClass is thrown
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by callableObj when invoked with arguments args and keyword
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arguments kwargs. If a different type of exception is
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thrown, it will not be caught, and the test case will be
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deemed to have suffered an error, exactly as for an
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unexpected exception.</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">assertTrue<span class="args">(self, expr, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail the test unless the expression is true.</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">assert_<span class="args">(self, expr, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail the test unless the expression is true.</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">countTestCases<span class="args">(self)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"></div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">debug<span class="args">(self)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Run the test without collecting errors in a TestResult</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">defaultTestResult<span class="args">(self)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"></div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">fail<span class="args">(self, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail immediately, with the given message.</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">failIf<span class="args">(self, expr, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail the test if the expression is true.</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">failIfAlmostEqual<span class="args">(self, first, second, places=7, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail if the two objects are equal as determined by their
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difference rounded to the given number of decimal places
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(default 7) and comparing to zero.</p>
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<p>Note that decimal places (from zero) are usually not the same
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as significant digits (measured from the most signficant digit).</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">failIfEqual<span class="args">(self, first, second, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail if the two objects are equal as determined by the '=='
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">failUnless<span class="args">(self, expr, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail the test unless the expression is true.</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">failUnlessAlmostEqual<span class="args">(self, first, second, places=7, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail if the two objects are unequal as determined by their
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difference rounded to the given number of decimal places
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(default 7) and comparing to zero.</p>
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<p>Note that decimal places (from zero) are usually not the same
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as significant digits (measured from the most signficant digit).</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">failUnlessEqual<span class="args">(self, first, second, msg=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail if the two objects are unequal as determined by the '=='
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">failUnlessRaises<span class="args">(self, excClass, callableObj, *args, **kwargs)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Fail unless an exception of class excClass is thrown
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by callableObj when invoked with arguments args and keyword
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arguments kwargs. If a different type of exception is
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thrown, it will not be caught, and the test case will be
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deemed to have suffered an error, exactly as for an
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unexpected exception.</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">id<span class="args">(self)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"></div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">run<span class="args">(self, result=None)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"></div></div><div class="method section"><span class="method name">runTest<span class="args">(self)</span></span><div class="method doc"></div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">setUp<span class="args">(self)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Hook method for setting up the test fixture before exercising it.</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">shortDescription<span class="args">(self)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Returns a one-line description of the test, or None if no
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description has been provided.</p>
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<p>The default implementation of this method returns the first line of
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the specified test method's docstring.</p>
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</div></div><div class="method section inherited"><span class="method name">tearDown<span class="args">(self)</span></span><span class="method inherited">(inherited from TestCase)</span><div class="method doc"><p>Hook method for deconstructing the test fixture after testing it.</p>
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