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

In python 2.7.3, nose 1.3.0, doing the following is working for me:

assert_equal.im_class.maxDiff = None
assert_equal(huge_thing, other_huge_thing)