Re: [Python-Dev] unittest's redundant assertions: asserts vs. failIf/Unlesses

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Gabriel Grant grantgm@mcmaster.ca wrote:

Hi all,

This gem from unittest.py is pretty much the opposite of "one obvious way":

# Synonyms for assertion methods

[snip]

Could these be removed for 3k?

I agree with others who say that we shouldn't do this for Python 3k. If we want to get rid of them, we should deprecate them, wait a release or so, *then* remove them.

That said, can we axe one of (assertEqual, assertEquals) too?

jml