UnicodeDecodeError comparing bytes

[carldunham]

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• Bug Report

Versions & Configuration

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• version of sure: 1.4.5
• implementation and version of python:

Python 2.7.13 (default, Mar 17 2017, 16:37:30)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)] on darwin

• operating system: osx 10.11.6

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% cat test_sure_bytes.py
import base64

from unittest import TestCase
import sure  # noqa


class TestBytesCompare(TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        data_b64 = (
            'MIGHAgEAMBMGByqGSM49AgEGCCqGSM49AwEHBG0wawIBAQQg11zwkcKSsSppm8Du13'
            'je6lmwR7hEVeKMw5L8NQEN/CehRANCAAT9RzcGN/S9yN7mWP+xfLGEuw/TyHRBiW4c'
            'GE6AczRgske/P8eq8trs8unSJPCp0YPKrmCEcuotL/8BHQ4Y1AVK'
        )
        self.data = base64.b64decode(data_b64)

    def tearDown(self):
        pass

    def test_bytes_compare(self):
        self.data.should.equal(self.data)

% nosetests test_sure_bytes.py
E
======================================================================
ERROR: test_bytes_compare (test_sure_bytes.TestBytesCompare)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/private/tmp/sure-test/test_sure_bytes.py", line 22, in test_bytes_compare
    self.data.should.equal(self.data)
  File "/Users/cdunham/.pyenv/versions/2.7.13/envs/sure-test-2.7.13/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sure/__init__.py", line 384, in wrapper
    value = func(self, *args, **kw)
  File "/Users/cdunham/.pyenv/versions/2.7.13/envs/sure-test-2.7.13/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sure/__init__.py", line 650, in equal
    comparison = DeepComparison(self.obj, what, epsilon).compare()
  File "/Users/cdunham/.pyenv/versions/2.7.13/envs/sure-test-2.7.13/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sure/core.py", line 238, in compare
    safe_X, safe_Y = safe_format_repr(X), safe_format_repr(Y)
  File "/Users/cdunham/.pyenv/versions/2.7.13/envs/sure-test-2.7.13/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sure/core.py", line 232, in safe_format_repr
    safe_repr = string.replace('{', '{{').replace('}', '}}')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

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Ran 1 test in 0.002s

FAILED (errors=1)

[timofurrer]

Thanks for the report!

Unfortunately, I am on vacations until thursday and can not provide a fix.
Maybe @gabrielfalcao can have a look at it?
Or I can review a PR ...

[timofurrer]

I've finally found time to fix this issue. See #137

I'll release v1.4.6 in a few 🎉