Topical change: use 'startswith()' to identify test methods with a
given prefix rather than comparing a slice.
diff --git a/Lib/unittest.py b/Lib/unittest.py
index f44769e..56c6da5 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
__author__ = "Steve Purcell"
__email__ = "stephen_purcell at yahoo dot com"
-__version__ = "#Revision: 1.56 $"[11:-2]
+__version__ = "#Revision: 1.57 $"[11:-2]
import time
import sys
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@
"""Return a sorted sequence of method names found within testCaseClass
"""
def isTestMethod(attrname, testCaseClass=testCaseClass, prefix=self.testMethodPrefix):
- return attrname[:len(prefix)] == prefix and callable(getattr(testCaseClass, attrname))
+ return attrname.startswith(prefix) and callable(getattr(testCaseClass, attrname))
testFnNames = filter(isTestMethod, dir(testCaseClass))
for baseclass in testCaseClass.__bases__:
for testFnName in self.getTestCaseNames(baseclass):