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

[Greg Ewing]

Richard Thomas wrote:

> I've been told by a couple of non-programmers that "failUnless" is
> more intuitive than "assert" if only for the reason that its unclear
> what "assert" might do.

But test frameworks are for use by programmers, not
non-programmers. Given that it's a test framework, would
a programmer really find it hard to guess what these
mean?

-- 
Greg