AssertRegexMatches equivalent in python 2.4

Question

Say I have a regex

REGEX = re.compile('.*foo{')

How do you write unit test that matches a rowset with python 2.4?

I know in python 2.7. I can use assertRegexMatches, unfortunately this does not work in 2.4: /

I use self.assertEqual for the rest of my tests.

Cheers, M

Answer 1

Since you asked about a rowset, not a single row

def createMatcher( self, regex ):
    def matchCheck( argument ):
        self.assertTrue( regex.match( argument ) )
    return matchCheck

Then in your function:

map( self.createMatcher( REGEX ), mySetOfStrings )

Answer 2

self.assertTrue(REGEX.match(text))

Answer 3

, :

assertTrue(REGEX.match(data))

, , :

assertTrue(REGEX.search(data))

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Answer 4

For testing earlier versions of Python, I prefer to use unittest2: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2/

This is the backport of unittestsupported by Michael Ford, the same developer who supports the stdlib version.