From c14814b1f27b603154972c9a8f35751e62338185 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tieqiong Zhang <tz2600@columbia.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:59:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Normalize paths before assert

---
 news/headerfile.rst         | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/test_serialization.py |  4 +++-
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 news/headerfile.rst

diff --git a/news/headerfile.rst b/news/headerfile.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..13b35c28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/headerfile.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+**Added:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Changed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Deprecated:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Removed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Fixed:**
+
+* Normalize paths before assert in `test_serialization/test_load_multiple` to prevent possible Windows short/long name mismatch.
+
+**Security:**
+
+* <news item>
diff --git a/tests/test_serialization.py b/tests/test_serialization.py
index 039877f6..049d325c 100644
--- a/tests/test_serialization.py
+++ b/tests/test_serialization.py
@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ def test_load_multiple(tmp_path, datafile):
             dt_colnames=["r", "gr"],
             show_path=True,
         )
-        assert headerfile == Path(generated_data[headerfile.name].pop("path"))
+        assert Path(headerfile).resolve() == Path(
+            generated_data[headerfile.name].pop("path")
+        )
 
         # rerun without path information and save to file
         generated_data = serialize_data(