[issue27071] unittest.TestCase.assertCountEqual is a very misleading name

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

Issue 38240 was closed as a duplicate of this.  After reconsidering, I agree with leaving the name alone.  Changing test assertXXX method names is a big nuisance, which we have done enough of.

If one is using IDLE,
>>> unittest.TestCase.assertCountEqual(
displays a boxed calltip with the signature and the two line summary that seems clear enough to me.  Good names are good; so are good docstring summaries.
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|(self, first, second, msg=None)                                       |
|Asserts that two iterables have the same elements, the same number of |
|times, without regard to order.                                       |
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