Re: [Pyunit-interest] comments on PyUnit

[Fred L. D. Jr. <fd...@ac...>]

Guido van Rossum writes:
 > The problem is that many test suites (e.g. the Zope tests for
 > PageTemplates :-) use assert statements instead of calls to fail*() /
 > assert*() methods.

  From the compatibility side, those methods need to be supported,
yes.  Is there a reason they should raise AssertionError and not a
subclass of it?  I think the later would help people learn that the
two are not the same thing at a conceptual level.  The assert*()
methods should raise the new exception.
  The framework can still *catch* the base AssertionError -- that's
different.  The AssertionError is exactly right when using an assert
statement, it's just not being used properly there.  ;-)  I'm less
concerned about the PageTemplates tests than our DOM tests; that's a
somewhat larger collection of tests!


  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Digital Creations