Homonyms are words spelled the same way with different meanings, like bat (flying mammal) and bat (club used to hit a baseball) (btw, club (a blunt instrument) and club (a closed association of people))...
In 22 years of programming Python, I always understood the "pass" keyword as "to forgo an opportunity to act". Of course, I also use "pass" as the opposite of "fail" in tests, but that was never the meaning of the *pass keyword* for me. Anyway, I subscribe 100% to Emily Bowman's position: "Reserving a common English word as a new keyword (whether fail or impossible) is the mother of all breaking changes." And the benefit is negative. Cheers, Luciano On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 4:42 PM Umair Ashraf <umr.as...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > Can I suggest a feature to discuss and hopefully develop and send a PR. I > think having a *fail* keyword for unit testing would be great. So we > write a test as follows which will fail to begin with. > > class MyTest(unittest.TestCase): > def test_this_and_that(self): > """ > Given inputs > When action is done > Then it should pass > """ > fail > > This keyword is to fill an empty function block like *pass* but this will > make the function raise an exception that test is failing. I know there is > *raise* but I feel this *fail* keyword is needed to write a test first > which fails and then write code and then come back to the test and fill its > body. > > Umair > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/QPOVO34K63CLEY66GSY5JOLWBRG5QRUM/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Luciano Ramalho | Author of Fluent Python (O'Reilly, 2015) | http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do | Technical Principal at ThoughtWorks | Twitter: @ramalhoorg
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