[issue2578] Figure out what to do with unittest's redundant APIs

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> I -did- add casing for the type to the main assertEqual method so it may
> make sense to make the new type specific methods private so that they're
> not part of the public API (ie: I agree with pitrou that it seems
> pointless).

Well, that's my own aesthetical feeling. Others may disagree :)
But I think the public API should stay reasonably compact, so that unit
testing doesn't incur a lot of cognitive overhead.

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