Issue #18996: TestCase.assertEqual() now more cleverly shorten differing

strings in error report.

Lib/unittest/util.py

@@ -1,10 +1,47 @@
 """Various utility functions."""
 
 from collections import namedtuple, OrderedDict
+from os.path import commonprefix
 
 __unittest = True
 
 _MAX_LENGTH = 80
+_PLACEHOLDER_LEN = 12
+_MIN_BEGIN_LEN = 5
+_MIN_END_LEN = 5
+_MIN_COMMON_LEN = 5
+_MIN_DIFF_LEN = _MAX_LENGTH - \
+               (_MIN_BEGIN_LEN + _PLACEHOLDER_LEN + _MIN_COMMON_LEN +
+                _PLACEHOLDER_LEN + _MIN_END_LEN)
+assert _MIN_DIFF_LEN >= 0
+
+def _shorten(s, prefixlen, suffixlen):
+    skip = len(s) - prefixlen - suffixlen
+    if skip > _PLACEHOLDER_LEN:
+        s = '%s[%d chars]%s' % (s[:prefixlen], skip, s[len(s) - suffixlen:])
+    return s
+
+def _common_shorten_repr(*args):
+    args = tuple(map(safe_repr, args))
+    maxlen = max(map(len, args))
+    if maxlen <= _MAX_LENGTH:
+        return args
+
+    prefix = commonprefix(args)
+    prefixlen = len(prefix)
+
+    common_len = _MAX_LENGTH - \
+                 (maxlen - prefixlen + _MIN_BEGIN_LEN + _PLACEHOLDER_LEN)
+    if common_len > _MIN_COMMON_LEN:
+        assert _MIN_BEGIN_LEN + _PLACEHOLDER_LEN + _MIN_COMMON_LEN + \
+               (maxlen - prefixlen) < _MAX_LENGTH
+        prefix = _shorten(prefix, _MIN_BEGIN_LEN, common_len)
+        return tuple(prefix + s[prefixlen:] for s in args)
+
+    prefix = _shorten(prefix, _MIN_BEGIN_LEN, _MIN_COMMON_LEN)
+    return tuple(prefix + _shorten(s[prefixlen:], _MIN_DIFF_LEN, _MIN_END_LEN)
+                 for s in args)
+
 def safe_repr(obj, short=False):
     try:
         result = repr(obj)