Question

Say I have a regex

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

How would you write a unit test that matches a set of string with python 2.4 ?

I know in python 2.7 I can use assertRegexMatches, unfortunately this doesn’t work in 2.4 :/

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

Cheers,
M

Answer 1

Since you asked about a set of string rather than a single string

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

Then in your function:

map( self.createMatcher( REGEX ), mySetOfStrings )