[issue8273] move test_support into the unittest package

[Michael Foord]

Michael Foord <michael at voidspace.org.uk> added the comment:

Sorry, missed David's 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.

This I agree with. The question here is deciding what is "the appropriate stuff". 

If we have to maintain backwards compatibility in test_support we could just leave things in there... (possibly plus deprecation or deprecation via documentation.)

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