[Python-Dev] PEP: Consolidating names and classes in the `unittest` module (updated 2008-07-15)

[Tres Seaver]

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Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
>>
>>> Ben Finney writes:
>>>
>>>  > Removal of ``assert*`` names
>>>  > ----------------------------
>>>  > 
>>>  > There is no overwhelming consensus on whether to remove the
>>>  > ``assert*`` names or the ``fail*`` names;
>>>
>>> 7 to 1 is overwhelming in my book.  See
>>> Message-ID: <loom.20080714T230912-310 at post.gmane.org>
>>> From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
>> That measured only usage of unittest *within the Python standard
>> library*. Is that the only body of unittest-using code we need
>> consider?
> 
> Three more data points then:
> 
> bzr: 13228 assert* vs. 770 fail*.
> 
> Twisted: 6149 assert* vs. 1666 fail*.
> 
> paramiko: 431 assert* vs. 4 fail*.
> 
> The data seems pretty overwhelmingly in favour of keeping assert*. 

FWIW:  Zope2:  16878 'assert*', 2892 'fail*'.  I would keep both by
preference, rather than insist on a "foolish consistency."


Tres.
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