使用nosetests时的AssertionError

Question

在学习Python困难之路的练习48中，我被要求创建一个要由此测试的模块lexicon_tests.py ：

from nose.tools import *
from ex48 import lexicon


def test_directions():
    assert_equal(lexicon.scan("north"), [('direction', 'north')])
    result = lexicon.scan("north south east")
    assert_equal(result, [('direction', 'north'),
                          ('direction', 'south'),
                          ('direction', 'east')])

def test_verbs():
    assert_equal(lexicon.scan("go"), [('verb', 'go')])
    result = lexicon.scan("go kill eat")
    assert_equal(result, [('verb', 'go'),
                          ('verb', 'kill'),
                          ('verb', 'eat')])


def test_stops():
    assert_equal(lexicon.scan("the"), [('stop', 'the')])
    result = lexicon.scan("the in of")
    assert_equal(result, [('stop', 'the'),
                          ('stop', 'in'),
                          ('stop', 'of')])


def test_nouns():
    assert_equal(lexicon.scan("bear"), [('noun', 'bear')])
    result = lexicon.scan("bear princess")
    assert_equal(result, [('noun', 'bear'),
                          ('noun', 'princess')])

def test_numbers():
    assert_equal(lexicon.scan("1234"), [('number', 1234)])
    result = lexicon.scan("3 91234")
    assert_equal(result, [('number', 3),
                          ('number', 91234)])


def test_errors():
    assert_equal(lexicon.scan("ASDFADFASDF"), [('error', 'ASDFADFASDF')])
    result = lexicon.scan("bear IAS princess")
    assert_equal(result, [('noun', 'bear'),
                          ('error', 'IAS'),
                          ('noun', 'princess')])

所以我在这里创建了要测试的模块lexicon.py ：

def scan(words):
    directions = ['north', 'south', 'east', 'west', 'down', 'up', 'left', 'right', 'back']
    verbs = ['go', 'stop', 'kill', 'eat']
    stop_words = ['the', 'in', 'of', 'from', 'at', 'it']
    nouns = ['door', 'bear', 'princess', 'cabinet']


    lex = words.split()
    list1 = []

    for i in lex:
        if i in directions:
            list1.append(('direction', i))
        elif i in verbs:
            list1.append(('verb', i))
        elif i in stop_words:
             list1.append(('stop-word', i))
        elif i in nouns:
            list1.append(('noun', i))
        elif i.isdigit():
            list1.append(('number', convert_number(i)))
        else:
            list1.append(('error', i))
    print list1 

def convert_number(s):
    try:
        return int(s)

    except ValueError:
        return None

但是当我在powershell中运行nosetests ，我得到了这个AssertionError：

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "G:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nose\case.py", line 197, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File        "G:\Users\Charles\dropbox\programming\lexicon_test\skeleton\tests\lexicon_tests.py", line   6, in test_directions
    assert_equal(lexicon.scan("north"), [('direction', 'north')])
AssertionError: None != [('direction', 'north')]
-------------------- >> begin captured stdout << ---------------------
[('direction', 'north')]

这是我为每次测试运行得到的相同错误消息，其中六个用于lexicon_tests.py的六个函数。 这个错误是什么意思？ 一段时间以来一直很烦人。 提前致谢。

Answer 1

assert_equal函数接受两个参数，如果参数彼此不相等则抛出错误。 在这种情况下， lexicon.scan("north")为None ，并且因为它不等于[('direction', 'north')] ，所以它会抛出错误。

换句话说，您的lexicon.scan功能无法正常工作。 它可能与它缺少一个return语句有关。