[Python-Dev] PEP: Consolidating names and classes in the unittest module (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Jul 15 01:19:09 CEST 2008

Ben Finney <ben+python benfinney.id.au> writes:

The following attribute names exist only as synonyms for other names. They are to be removed, leaving only one name for each attribute in the API.

Just for information, here is the current distribution of the two synonym kinds: (on py3k)

$ grep "self.assert" Lib/test/test_*.py | wc -l 14972 $ grep "self.fail" Lib/test/test_*.py | wc -l 1807

If no rational argument prevails, at least we have data on the past and current habits of the python-dev community.

regards

Antoine.

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