[Python-Dev] Cleaning-up the new unittest API

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:02:27 -0400
"R. David Murray" <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't disagree with this simplification, but given that you all want
> to pare down the unittest API, I'd be interested in your opinions on
> issue 10164.  Because the assertBytesEqual method takes an optional
> argument, it seems like it would need to be documented, even though
> it would in a lot of cases just be used through assertEqual.

The optional argument doesn't look very useful. I imagine there are
plenty of special cases where you could need custom splitting of
bytestrings on a given byte, a regexp pattern, or along some fixed
chunk length, but they are special cases.

Regards

Antoine.