Best way to assert for numpy.array equality?

Question

I want to make some unit-tests for my app, and I need to compare two arrays. Since array.__eq__ returns a new array (so TestCase.assertEqual fails)

Answer 1

Since Python 3.2 you can use assertSequenceEqual(array1.tolist(), array2.tolist()).

This has the added value of showing you the exact items in which the arrays differ.