[Python-Dev] Cleaning-up the new unittest API

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 31, 2010, at 09:54 AM, Gregory P. Smith wrote:

>> - moving the documentation to an "advanced" or "complete reference" section
>>
>
>Agreed, I perfer simply deemphasizing these methods by reorganizing the
>documentation and mentioning in their documentation to, "just use
>assertEqual."  De-documenting them is the first step towards causing
>unnecessary pain by taking either of the next two steps:
>
>- make the methods non-public by prepending an underscore
>> - leaving them public but adding deprecation warnings to the code
>>
>
>Please do not make any existing released methods from the unittest module
>non-public or add any deprecation warnings.  That will simply cause
>unnecessary code churn and pain for people porting their code from one
>version to the next without benefiting anyone.

I was hoping someone would get my not-too-subtle hint. :)

-Barry
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