Python unittest - asserting dictionary with lists

Question

While writing some tests for my class, I encountered interesting simple problem. I would like to assertDictEqual two dictionaries containing some list. But this lists may not be

Answer 1

You can do:

a = {i:sorted(j) if isinstance(j, list) else j for i,j in resulting_dictionary.iteritems()}
b = {i:sorted(j) if isinstance(j, list) else j for i,j in obj.exportToDict().iteritems()}
self.assertDictEqual(a, b)