Introduced support for u-strings (explicit unicode strings e.g. u"") for Python step definitions.
⚡️ What's your motivation?
Resolves cucumber/vscode#173, allowing step definition patterns written with Python u-strings.
@given(u"I have 58 cukes in my belly")
def step_impl(context):
...
Although not required in Python 3, they are usable and are suggested in missing step definitions for Behave due to Python 2 compatibility.
Developer experience has been improved for Python unit tests by changing asserts to assert.strictEqual, which shows exact match failures in strings - so that they can be fixed - compared to simply stating condition was not True.
🏷️ What kind of change is this?
:zap: New feature (non-breaking change which adds new behaviour)
🤔 What's changed?
Introduced support for u-strings (explicit unicode strings e.g.
u"") for Python step definitions.⚡️ What's your motivation?
Resolves cucumber/vscode#173, allowing step definition patterns written with Python u-strings.
Although not required in Python 3, they are usable and are suggested in missing step definitions for Behave due to Python 2 compatibility.
Developer experience has been improved for Python unit tests by changing asserts to
assert.strictEqual, which shows exact match failures in strings - so that they can be fixed - compared to simply stating condition was not True.🏷️ What kind of change is this?
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