[Python-Dev] PEP: Consolidating names and classes in the `unittest` module

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Jul 15 01:18:57 CEST 2008


"Benjamin Peterson" <musiccomposition at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > Use new-style classes throughout
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > The following classes will inherit explicitly from the built-in
> > `object` type, to make all classes in the module part of the new-style
> > type hierarchy.
> >
> > * ``TestResult``
> > * ``TestCase``
> > * ``TestSuite``
> > * ``TestLoader``
> > * ``_WritelnDecorator``
> > * ``TextTestRunner``
> > * ``TestProgram``
> 
> They already do. __metaclass__ = type is found in unittest.py.

Not in the copy I have. Is that in 3.x only, or in 2.x also?

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