[issue8273] move test_support into the unittest package

[Brett Cannon]

Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> added the comment:

I take the blame on documenting the handful of things in test.support; I thought it was a good idea to expose the handful of things that had an actual design to them. =)

But yes, we should probably shift to test.support to being private and simply exposing the stuff that we want to support to another module, although this stuff is not unittest-specific; its just testing utility functions. testlib or testutils would be a better place.

And we should make sure we are *very* comfortable supporting whatever we move over and that it has a good API as test.support has been a dumping ground for so long that most of that stuff should not get exposed (and honestly should get ripped out or cleaned up; TESTFN is just bad for instance).

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