-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 2008-07-16 02:20, Collin Winter wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Significant updates include removing all reference to the >>> (already-resolved) new-style class issue, adding footnotes and >>> references, and a Rationale summary of discussion on both sides of the >>> divide for 'assert*' versus 'fail*' names. >>> >>> >>> :PEP: XXX >>> :Title: Consolidating names in the `unittest` module >>> :Version: 0.2 >>> :Last-Modified: 2008-07-15 >>> :Author: Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> :Status: Draft >>> :Type: Standards Track >>> :Content-Type: test/x-rst >>> :Created: 2008-07-14 >>> :Python-Version: 2.7, 3.1 > > +1 for doing this in 3.1. > > -1 for Python 2.7. > > The main reason is that there's just too much 2.x code out there > using the API names you are suggesting to change and/or remove > from the module. > > Since this is a major change in the unit test API, I'd also like > to suggest that you use a new module name. > > This is both a precaution to prevent tests failing due to not having > been upgraded and a way for old code to continue working by adding > the old unittest module on sys.path. > > Please note that the required renaming of the methods in existing > tests is not going to be as straight forward as you may think, > since you may well rename method calls into the tested application > rather than just the unit test class method calls if you're not > careful.
+1. I had just groped my way to that counter-proposal myself, for exactly your reasons. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIfk+W+gerLs4ltQ4RApZlAJ47NVKXxbL/oaYyVZEUgRnnvajm+wCgyOO2 4GbVo2D1eWYcJvpx1yf8bLs= =2HV6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
