[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r42116 - python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/unittest.py

[Guido van Rossum]

Right. This *definitely* is a feature, not a bug.

On 1/20/06, Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 06:55:03PM +0100, georg.brandl wrote:
> > Author: georg.brandl
> > Date: Fri Jan 20 18:55:02 2006
> > New Revision: 42116
> >
> > Modified:
> >    python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/unittest.py
> > Log:
> > Patch #1388073: Make unittest.TestCase easier to subclass
>
> I don't believe this belongs in 2.4, since it can, actually, break code.
> Code that depends on the current situation, _TestCase__attributename.
> Fragile code, to be sure, but still. If there were a compelling reason to
> backport, I guess it could be hacked to work right-ish, but subclassing
> TestCase in this way, while convenient, isn't important enough to warrant
> this (IMHO).
>
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