R. David Murray added the comment:
Yes, setting _MAX_LENGTH can be an independent feature request.
The default will not be changed, however, since it is the most useful default
given that assertEquals in general produces a much more useful diff output in
addition to the one-line summary. Yo
New submission from Maarten ter Huurne:
In a unit test for one of my projects I am comparing tree-structured objects
using assertEqual(). Because there can be a few nested levels, the repr()
string can exceed the _MAX_LENGTH which is just 80 characters. Not by much, but
enough to get shortened
