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

[Michael Foord]

Tres Seaver wrote:
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> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
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>> On 2008-07-16 02:20, Collin Winter wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
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>>>> Significant updates include removing all reference to the
>>>> (already-resolved) new-style class issue, adding footnotes and
>>>> references, and a Rationale summary of discussion on both sides of the
>>>> divide for 'assert*' versus 'fail*' names.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> :PEP:               XXX
>>>> :Title:             Consolidating names in the `unittest` module
>>>> :Version:           0.2
>>>> :Last-Modified:     2008-07-15
>>>> :Author:            Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
>>>> :Status:            Draft
>>>> :Type:              Standards Track
>>>> :Content-Type:      test/x-rst
>>>> :Created:           2008-07-14
>>>> :Python-Version:    2.7, 3.1
>>>>         
>> +1 for doing this in 3.1.
>>
>> -1 for Python 2.7.
>>
>> The main reason is that there's just too much 2.x code out there
>> using the API names you are suggesting to change and/or remove
>> from the module.
>>
>> Since this is a major change in the unit test API, I'd also like
>> to suggest that you use a new module name.
>>
>> This is both a precaution to prevent tests failing due to not having
>> been upgraded and a way for old code to continue working by adding
>> the old unittest module on sys.path.
>>
>> Please note that the required renaming of the methods in existing
>> tests is not going to be as straight forward as you may think,
>> since you may well rename method calls into the tested application
>> rather than just the unit test class method calls if you're not
>> careful.
>>     
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>   

Do you have production code methods called 'assertEquals' and the like? 
It sounds pretty unlikely to me.

Michael

> +1.  I had just groped my way to that counter-proposal myself, for
> exactly your reasons.
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> Tres.
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