[Python-Dev] Cleaning-up the new unittest API (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Oct 30 18:36:45 CEST 2010

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:02:27 -0400 "R. David Murray" <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:

I don't disagree with this simplification, but given that you all want to pare down the unittest API, I'd be interested in your opinions on issue 10164. Because the assertBytesEqual method takes an optional argument, it seems like it would need to be documented, even though it would in a lot of cases just be used through assertEqual.

The optional argument doesn't look very useful. I imagine there are plenty of special cases where you could need custom splitting of bytestrings on a given byte, a regexp pattern, or along some fixed chunk length, but they are special cases.

Regards

Antoine.

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