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

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Tue Jul 15 19:45:44 CEST 2008

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Andrew Bennetts wrote:

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*.

FWIW: Zope2: 16878 'assert*', 2892 'fail*'. I would keep both by preference, rather than insist on a "foolish consistency."

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