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

[Georg Brandl]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 21:43 +0100, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> 
>> 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).
> 
> Exactly right.

You're right. Next time I'm going to decide in favor of not backporting.
I reverted both checkins, this and the urlparse one.


For 2.5, this would be a good opportunity to add additional schemes
to urlparse. Candidates?

Georg