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

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Wed Jul 16 00:36:56 CEST 2008

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

Terry Reedy writes:

> For the community as a whole, all stdlib modules are suggestions > and examples, not commands. Well, even if "standard" is too strong a word, the DeprecationWarnings and eventual removal of the methods surely constitute an imposition.

I understood Terry's statement as meaning that there is no commandment to use the standard library 'unittest' module at all. If a user doesn't like the behaviour of a module (such as 'unittest') in the standard library, they can accept the burden of implementing one that behaves the way they like.

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