[Python-Dev] PEP: Frequently-requested additional features for the `unittest` module

[Ben Finney]

Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> writes:

> The full list of changes proposed […] and not shot down was
> something like:
[…]

>    assertLessThan
>    assertGreaterThan
>    assertLessThanOrEquals
>    assertGreaterThanOrEquals
[…]

"Brett Cannon" <brett at python.org> writes:

> Is any of this really necessary? Isn't this the equivalent of
> ``assert_(a < b)``? It seems like the only thing you get out of this
> is a nicer error message, but ``assert_(a < b, 'not %r <= %s' % (a,
> b))`` is not that complex. And do these cases really come up that
> often? I would want to see some numbers showing that these are
> really necessary (in both usage and people even specifying an error
> message in the first place).

Though I'm the champion of this PEP, I'll have to refer to Michael
Foord for his reasoning (or reference to others' reasoning) on this.

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Ben Finney