I am using assertIn to test that a part of the result in JSON string is correct.
test_json = some_function_returning_a_dict()
self.assertIn(expected_json, test_json, "did not match expected output")
The error is
AssertionError: "'abc': '1.0012'," not found in [{'abc': '1.0012',...
I used Ctrl + F over the inner string, and it was in the resulting string.
I'm using Python 3.0
Right. Python's in operator works on an iterable object. The clause in test_json means, "is the given item a key of the dictionary". It does not search the dictionary for a key:value pair.
To do this, use a two-step process:
assertIn('abc', test_json)
assertEquals('1.0012', test_json['abc'])
Doing this with appropriate variables and references is left as an exercise for the student. :-)
items() view.
"'abc': '1.0012'," is a string and {'abc': '1.0012', } is an entry in dictionary
You want to be checking for the dictionary entry in json, not a string
It looks like you are attempting to find a string inside a dictionary, which will check to see if the string you are giving is a key of the specified dictionary. Firstly don't convert your first dictionary to a string, and secondly do something like all(item in test_json.items() for item in expected_json.items())
