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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Jul 16 08:10:54 CEST 2008

Ben Finney wrote:

"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.

I have written the few specialized test functions that I need my current project. I did this after considering (and taking ideas from) py.test. I will also use doctest as a supplement.

I also meant that one who does use something is free to rename it. I commonly import xskjfl as x;-)

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