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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Jul 15 19:55:00 CEST 2008

So far I have "precedent and tradition" and "positive admonition looks better" in support of preferring the 'assert*' names. Are there any others?

Avoiding double negatives. (and don't tell me "fail" is not a negative word, because you just used the phrase "positive admonition" to refer to the assert* variants, which implies quite clearly that the fail* variants are on the negative side ;-))

Regards

Antoine.

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