unittest wart/bug for assertNotEqual

[Zac Burns]

> I was with you right up to the last six words.
>
> Whether it's worth changing assertNotEqual to be something other than an
> alias of failIfEqual is an interesting question. Currently all the
> assert* and fail* variants are aliases of each other, which is easy to
> learn. This would introduce a broken symmetry, where assertNotEqual tests
> something different from failIfEqual, and would mean users have to learn
> which assert* methods are aliases of fail* methods, and which are not.
> I'm not sure that's a good idea.
>
> After all, the documentation is clear on what it does:
>
>     |  assertNotEqual = failIfEqual(self, first, second, msg=None)
>     |      Fail if the two objects are equal as determined by the '=='
>     |      operator.
>     |
>
>
> (Taken from help(unittest).)
>
>
>
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My preference would be that failIfEqual checks both != and ==. This is
practical, and would benefit almost all use cases. If "!=" isn't "not
==" (IEEE NaNs I hear is the only known use case) then those could
simply not use this method.

It would not surprise me if changing this would bring to light many
existing bugs.

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