[issue8273] move test_support into the unittest package

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

Actually, the list Terek posted a link to is a public doc page, and as was made clear in the recent issue about the check_warnings helper, we do have to maintain backward compatibility.  

There (should be) undocumented stuff in test_support, purposely left undocumented so that we *don't* have to maintain backward compatibility.  Myself I wish that doc page didn't even exist.  Putting stuff that users can use into unittest is a much better idea.

Maybe we could move the appropriate stuff and get rid of the test_support doc page altogether.  And when we move stuff to unittest maybe we could take the opportunity to clean up any warts in the interfaces.

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nosy: +georg.brandl, r.david.murray
priority:  -> low
type:  -> feature request

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