61    test: unittest.TestCase,
 
   62    actual: message.Message,
 
   63    expected: message.Message,
 
   65    """Asserts the input protos are equivalent, see module doc for details.""" 
   66    normalized_actual = copy.deepcopy(actual)
 
   67    normalize.math_opt_normalize_proto(normalized_actual)
 
   68    normalized_expected = copy.deepcopy(expected)
 
   69    normalize.math_opt_normalize_proto(normalized_expected)
 
   70    test.assertEqual(str(normalized_actual), str(normalized_expected))