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Reputation: 25

Django Sanity Test Reveals 404 is not 404

I was creating sanity checks in my django tests and came across an error I had accounted for. Unfortunately my test fails when it should be successful. I am testing when a page is not there (a 404 status code). The error message and code are below. When I added quotes I received 404 is not '404'.

Django-1.10.2 & Python 3.4.5

./manage.py test app

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tests/dir/tests.py", line 26, in test_404
    self.assertIs(response.status_code,404)
AssertionError: 404 is not 404

from django.test import TestCase
from django.test import Client

class SanityCheckTests(TestCase):
def test_404(self):
    """
    Http Code 404
    """
    client = Client()

    response = client.get('/test404')
    print(response)
    self.assertIs(response.status_code,404)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 232

Answers (1)

Shadow
Shadow

Reputation: 9427

You're on the right track - but assertIs ensures you have the same instance of an object. You just want to make sure they are equal.

Therefore, change your last line to 

self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 404)

Upvotes: 3

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