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

[Terry Reedy]

Tres Seaver wrote:
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> If camelCase / duplicated names are such a pain, write a *new* module,
> 'unittest2', and port Python's tests to use it, thereby leaving the much
> larger volume of not-in-Python tests still working.  One might then
> remove the 'unittest' module in a later release, packaging it as a
> standalone distibution for the projects which still need it.

There was, at one time at least, some degree of consensus for dropping 
the Fail names and keeping the Assert names, which appear to comprise 
75%-80% of usage 'in the wild'.  There seems to less consensus on also 
changing the Assert names from CamelCase to under_score versions.  So I 
was also thinking about a 'unittest2', recommended for new projects and 
gradual changeover of the Python test suite.  'Unittest' could be left 
unchanged but gradually disrecommended, deprecated, and removed (perhaps 
in 4.0 if not before).