From c0d08f9c0db8071428f1358e186e83826d68db5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Jevnik <joe@quantopian.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:28:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] TST: Adds wildcard object for assert_equal

---
 zipline/testing/core.py       | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 zipline/testing/predicates.py | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/zipline/testing/core.py b/zipline/testing/core.py
index dce7815851..1456d7cd24 100644
--- a/zipline/testing/core.py
+++ b/zipline/testing/core.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 import os
 from os.path import abspath, dirname, join, realpath
 import shutil
+from sys import _getframe
 import tempfile
 
 from logbook import TestHandler
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@
 from six.moves import filter, map
 from sqlalchemy import create_engine
 from testfixtures import TempDirectory
-from toolz import concat
+from toolz import concat, curry
 
 from zipline.assets import AssetFinder, AssetDBWriter
 from zipline.assets.synthetic import make_simple_equity_info
@@ -860,6 +861,7 @@ def __str__(self):
         )
 
 
+@nottest
 def subtest(iterator, *_names):
     """
     Construct a subtest in a unittest.
@@ -1374,3 +1376,27 @@ def patched_read_csv(filepath_or_buffer, *args, **kwargs):
 
     with patch.object(module, 'read_csv', patched_read_csv):
         yield
+
+
+@curry
+def ensure_doctest(f, name=None):
+    """Ensure that an object gets doctested. This is useful for instances
+    of objects like curry or partial which are not discovered by default.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    f : any
+        The thing to doctest.
+    name : str, optional
+        The name to use in the doctest function mapping. If this is None,
+        Then ``f.__name__`` will be used.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    f : any
+       ``f`` unchanged.
+    """
+    _getframe(2).f_globals.setdefault('__test__', {})[
+        f.__name__ if name is None else name
+    ] = f
+    return f
diff --git a/zipline/testing/predicates.py b/zipline/testing/predicates.py
index 3bc35346f6..e346b0491d 100644
--- a/zipline/testing/predicates.py
+++ b/zipline/testing/predicates.py
@@ -39,12 +39,47 @@
 from toolz import dissoc, keyfilter
 import toolz.curried.operator as op
 
+from zipline.testing.core import ensure_doctest
 from zipline.dispatch import dispatch
 from zipline.lib.adjustment import Adjustment
-from zipline.utils.functional import dzip_exact
+from zipline.utils.functional import dzip_exact, instance
 from zipline.utils.math_utils import tolerant_equals
 
 
+@instance
+@ensure_doctest
+class wildcard(object):
+    """An object that compares equal to any other object.
+
+    This is useful when using :func:`~zipline.testing.predicates.assert_equal`
+    with a large recursive structure and some fields to be ignored.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> wildcard == 5
+    True
+    >>> wildcard == 'ayy'
+    True
+
+    # reflected
+    >>> 5 == wildcard
+    True
+    >>> 'ayy' == wildcard
+    True
+    """
+    @staticmethod
+    def __eq__(other):
+        return True
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def __ne__(other):
+        return False
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return '<%s>' % type(self).__name__
+    __str__ = __repr__
+
+
 def keywords(func):
     """Get the argument names of a function