Message 103612 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

Also note that the test_support module is for some reason documented here: http://docs.python.org/library/test.html#module-test.test_support This means that there are probably developers out there that are already using these functions even if some of them are not intended/designed to be used outside the Python test suite. This situation is sub-optimal for two reasons:

1. test_support can't evolve quickly because the documented functions have to be backward-compatible;
2. other developers are using these python-test-suite-specific functions in their tests; It would be better to keep test_support for our test suite only and provide/move useful function in unittest.