[Python-Dev] unittest's redundant assertions: asserts vs. failIf/Unlesses
Jeffrey Yasskin
jyasskin at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 01:16:01 CET 2008
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:15 PM, <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
>
> On 02:21 pm, murman at gmail.com wrote:
> >>OTOH, I'd rather there be OOWTDI so whatever the consensus is is fine
> >>with me.
> >
> >This strikes me as a gratuitous API change of the kind Guido was
> >warning about in his recent post: "Don't change your APIs incompatibly
> >when porting to Py3k"
>
> I agree emphatically. Actually I think this is the most extreme case.
> The unit test stuff should be as stable as humanly possible between 2
> and 3, moreso than any other library.
This is convincing for me. Move my +1 back to 3.1.
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Namasté,
Jeffrey Yasskin
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