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On 17 Jul 2015 08:34, "Michael Foord" <<a href="mailto:fuzzyman@gmail.com">fuzzyman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Wednesday, 15 July 2015, Robert Collins <<a href="mailto:robertc@robertcollins.net">robertc@robertcollins.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> > On 15 July 2015 at 12:59, Nick Coghlan <<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> >> There is zero urgency here, so nothing needs to change for 3.5.<br>
> >> Robert's plan is a fine one to propose for 3.6 (and the PyPI mock<br>
> >> backport).<br>
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> > Right - the bad API goes back to the very beginning. I'm not planning<br>
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> I disagree it's a bad api. It's part of why mock was so easy to use and part of why it was so successful. With the new check for non-existent assert methods it's no longer dangerous and so doesn't need fixing. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Could you help me understand how the presence of assert... on the mock vs in the mock module affected ease of use?</p>
<p dir="ltr">-Rob<br>
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