How to set self.maxDiff in nose to get full diff output?

Question

When using nose 1.2.1 with Python 3.3.0, I sometimes get an error message similar to the following one

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Answer 1

You set maxDiff to None.

But you will have to actually use a unittest.TestCase for your tests for that to work. This should work.

class MyTest(unittest.TestCase):

    maxDiff = None

    def test_diff(self):