[issue8273] move test_support into the unittest package

[Florent Xicluna]

Florent Xicluna <florent.xicluna at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Maybe we could move the appropriate stuff and get rid of the
> test_support doc page altogether.  And when we move stuff to unittest
> maybe we could take the opportunity to clean up any warts in the
> interfaces.

+1

I don't like the burden of backward compatibility concerns for this kind of test helpers.

The "Lib/test/" directory should be exclusively for internal Python tests.
It should be clearly stated in the documentation.

If some helpers are enough generic, they could be moved to unittest.support (or unittest.util).

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nosy: +flox
versions: +Python 3.2

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