[New-bugs-announce] [issue38240] assertCountEqual is horribly misleading, sounds like only counts are being compared

[Vitaly Kruglikov]

New submission from Vitaly Kruglikov <vitaly.krug at gmail.com>:

assertCountEqual is a horribly misleading name because it misleads the programmer and reader of the test code into thinking that it only compares the counts of the elements.

It's name misrepresents what it does in a really bad way.

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components: Tests
messages: 352901
nosy: vitaly.krug
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: assertCountEqual is horribly misleading, sounds like only counts are being compared
versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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