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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jul 16 02:22:45 CEST 2008

Richard Thomas wrote:

I've been told by a couple of non-programmers that "failUnless" is more intuitive than "assert" if only for the reason that its unclear what "assert" might do.

But test frameworks are for use by programmers, not non-programmers. Given that it's a test framework, would a programmer really find it hard to guess what these mean?

-- Greg

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