[Python-Dev] PEP: Consolidating names in the `unittest` module

[Collin Winter]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
>>
>>
>> Michael Foord wrote:
>>>
>>> Collin Winter wrote:
>>
>>>> Is any provision being made for a 2to3 fixer/otherwise-automated
>>>> transition for the changes you propose here?
>>>>
>>>
>>> As the deprecation is intended for 2.X and 3.X - is 2to3 fixer needed?
>>
>> A fixer will only be needed when it actually is needed, but when it is, it
>> should be a unittest-name fixer since previous 3.x code will also need
>> fixing.  Since the duplicates are multiples names for the same objects, the
>> fixer should be a trivial name substitution.
>
> Can 2to3 fixers be used for 2to2 and 3to3 translation then?

The intention is for the infrastructure behind 2to3 to be generally
reusable for other Python source-to-source translation tools, be that
2to2 or 3to3. That hasn't fully materialized yet, but it's getting
there.

Collin