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Recently I wrote the unit test code the simiki. A problem puzzled me.

First, I use python to print the generated output html, and redirect write a expected_output.html by >.

But when I test the result, return False.

So I write the result by python’s file.write. And find the reason.

I use md5sum to check if they are the same, but not:

$ tankywoo@linuxmint::tests/ (dev*) » md5sum input.html expected_output.html 
d977c9d6adb7a14ed5fc5faab8728741  input.html
9fa7b4e342c9034fa4f8d48cc6cc3a5d  expected_output.html

And diff them:

$ tankywoo@linuxmint::tests/ (dev*) » diff input.html expected_output.html 
51c51
< </html>
\ No newline at end of file
---
> </html>

Note the No newline at end of file!!!

Use hexdump:

$ tankywoo@linuxmint::tests/ (dev*) » hexdump -C input.html | tail -n 2
00000540  73 63 72 69 70 74 3e 0a  3c 2f 68 74 6d 6c 3e     |script>.</html>|
0000054f
$ tankywoo@linuxmint::tests/ (dev*) » hexdump -C expected_output.html | tail -n 2
00000540  73 63 72 69 70 74 3e 0a  3c 2f 68 74 6d 6c 3e 0a  |script>.</html>.|
00000550

There is a more 0a symbol in expected_output.html.

In man ascii:

   Oct   Dec   Hex   Char                 
   ───────────────────────────────────────
   012   10    0A    LF  '\n' (new line)  

The 0a is newline symbol.

The end I thought that the print in python will append a newline at the end.

So I use print(html, end="") the will be ok.


PS: The cat command will also find there is no newline after at the end:

$ tankywoo@linuxmint::tests/ (dev*) » cat input.html| tail -n 2
</html>%
$ tankywoo@linuxmint::tests/ (dev*) » cat expected_output.html| tail -n 2
</html>

Note the percent sign, this indictes that there is no newline symbol at the end of file.


Thank this article Hg/Git diff says “No newline at end of file”