Michael Foord wrote:
Ben Finney wrote:
Howdy Michael,
I'm interested in the changes you're proposing for Python's 'unittest' module. I am (like, I suspect, many Python coders) maintaining my own set of extensions to the module across many projects, so I'd really like to see many of the improvements you discuss actually in the standard library.
What assistance can I offer to help on this issue?
I intend to start working on them in August, after I have finished my current writing commitments.
The full list of changes proposed (feel free to start - but ping me or the list) and not shot down was something like:
Documenting that the assert method names are to be preferred over the 'FailUnless' names (this stirred up some controversy this weekend so should probably not happen).
Adding the following new asserts:
assertIn (member, container, msg=None) assertNotIn (member, container, msg=None) assertIs (first, second, msg=None) assertNotIs (first, second, msg=None)
Please, let's call this one "assertIsNot". I know it's valid Python to say if a not is b: but it's a much less natural way of expressing the condition, and (for all I know) might even introduce an extra negation operation. "is not" is, I believe, treated as a single operator.
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