[Python-Dev] Proposed unittest changes (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 14 11:14:20 CEST 2008

Ben Finney wrote:

Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:

Michael Foord wrote: Adding the following new asserts:

assertIn (member, container, msg=None) assertNotIn (member, container, msg=None) assertIs (first, second, msg=None) assertNotIs (first, second, msg=None) Please, let's call this one "assertIsNot". I know it's valid Python to say if a not is b: but it's a much less natural way of expressing the condition, and (for all I know) might even introduce an extra negation operation. "is not" is, I believe, treated as a single operator. Dang. You're exactly right. The problem is, that makes it quite inconsistent with other "not" uses (such as "assertnotequal", "assertnotin", etc.) I would really prefer that all these "not" uses be gramatically consistent for predictability. Is this a case where "assertisnot" should exist alongside "assertnotis"?

If we can flip the word order in the language syntax, we can sure as heck flip it in a method name :)

Cheers, Nick.

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