[Python-Dev] PEP: Consolidating names and classes in the unittest module (updated 2008-07-15) (original) (raw)

Andrew Bennetts andrew-pythondev at puzzling.org
Tue Jul 15 15:05:33 CEST 2008

Ben Finney wrote:

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Ben Finney writes: > > > Removal of assert* names > > ---------------------------- > > > > There is no overwhelming consensus on whether to remove the > > assert* names or the fail* names; > > 7 to 1 is overwhelming in my book. See > Message-ID: <loom.20080714T230912-310 at post.gmane.org> > From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> That measured only usage of unittest *within the Python standard library*. Is that the only body of unittest-using code we need consider?

Three more data points then:

bzr: 13228 assert* vs. 770 fail*.

Twisted: 6149 assert* vs. 1666 fail*.

paramiko: 431 assert* vs. 4 fail*.

The data seems pretty overwhelmingly in favour of keeping assert*.

-Andrew.

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