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

[Gerard flanagan]

Ben Finney wrote:
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> writes:
>> One option for rationalising the API would be to merely keep the
>> shortest version of each phrase (i.e. use assert* instead of
>> fail_unless* for the positive tests and fail_if* instead of
>> assert_not* for the negative tests, and always drop the trailing 's'
>> from 'equals').
> 
> I think clarity, consistency, and discoverability are more important
> criteria than saving a few characters in a method name.
> 
>> Adding in possible positive and negative forms of the proposed new
>> methods
> 
> A major point of this PEP is to *remove* redundant names in the API.
> 


     def it_is_a_truth_universally_recognised_that(...):

     def we_are_all_feckin_doomed_unless(...):

should be quite sufficient ;-)

entia-non-sunt-multiplicanda-ly y'rs

G.