Re: [Docutils-develop] python 2.3 unittest assertTrue missing

[David G. <go...@py...>]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:46, engelbert gruber
<gr...@us...> wrote:
> hei
>
> in python 2.3 unittest.TestCase has no assertTrue
> this bites several times::
>
>      8 AttributeError: 'ConfigEnvVarFileTests' object has no
> attribute 'assertTrue'
>      8 AttributeError: 'ConfigFileTests' object has no attribute 'assertTrue'
>      3 AttributeError: 'ElementTests' object has no attribute 'assertTrue'
>      2 AttributeError: 'EmptySMTests' object has no attribute 'assertTrue'
>      2 AttributeError: 'EmptySMWSTests' object has no attribute 'assertTrue'
>     20 AttributeError: 'FunctionalTestCase' object has no attribute
> 'assertTrue'
>      1 AttributeError: 'InputTests' object has no attribute 'assertTrue'
>      1 AttributeError: 'MiscTests' object has no attribute 'assertTrue'
>      2 AttributeError: 'PublishDoctreeTestCase' object has no
> attribute 'assertTrue'
>      2 AttributeError: 'PublisherTests' object has no attribute 'assertTrue'
>      1 AttributeError: 'SMWSTests' object has no attribute 'assertTrue'
>      1 AttributeError: 'StopTraversalTests' object has no attribute
> 'assertTrue'
>      2 AttributeError: 'ViewListTests' object has no attribute 'assertTrue'
>
> any suggestions, before i fake it

Drop support for 2.3? 2.4 is 8 years old. How long should we support a
Python version? Maybe 5 years is more than enough.

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David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>