[Python-Dev] incompatible unittest changes

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

In trunk after 2.5, equality and hashing for TestCase were added, changing the behavior so that two instances of TestCase for the same test method hash the same and compare equal.  This means two instances of TestCase for the same test method cannot be added to a single set.

Here's the change:

http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/unittest.py?rev=54199&r1=42115&r2=54199

The implementations aren't even very good, since they prevent another type from deciding that it wants to customize comparison against TestCase (or TestSuite,
or FunctionTestCase) instances.

Is there a real use case for this functionality?  If not, I'd like it to be
removed to restore the old behavior.

Jean-Paul