[Python-Dev] Unittest PEP do's and don'ts (BDFL pronouncement)

[Ben Finney]

"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> writes:

> Having skimmed much material about proposed changes to the venerable
> unitest module, I'd like to set some boundaries. PEPs that don't
> follow the following rules are very unlikely to be accepted.

Thanks for giving the attention to this topic and producing a
pronouncement.

> 1. The API is not going to be renamed to PEP-8 conformance.
[...]

> 3. I like assertEqual better than failUnlessEqual (and similar for
> all assert* versions in favor of their fail* alias), and I don't
> like that there is both assertEqual and assertEquals. But rule #1
> means we have to live with the aliases. At best we can discourage
> the undesirables by documenting them out of existence.

These two together kill any interest I have in being PEP champion for
unittest changes, or on putting effort into the changes.

Thanks, everyone, for the lively discussion.

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Ben Finney