[Python-Dev] PEP: Frequently-requested additional features for the unittest module (original) (raw)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Wed Jul 16 05:04:12 CEST 2008

Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> writes:

The full list of changes proposed […] and not shot down was something like: […]

assertLessThan assertGreaterThan assertLessThanOrEquals assertGreaterThanOrEquals […]

"Brett Cannon" <brett at python.org> writes:

Is any of this really necessary? Isn't this the equivalent of assert(a < b)? It seems like the only thing you get out of this is a nicer error message, but ``assert(a < b, 'not %r <= %s' % (a, b))`` is not that complex. And do these cases really come up that often? I would want to see some numbers showing that these are really necessary (in both usage and people even specifying an error message in the first place).

Though I'm the champion of this PEP, I'll have to refer to Michael Foord for his reasoning (or reference to others' reasoning) on this.

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