Re: [Pyunit-interest] comments on PyUnit

[Guido v. R. <gu...@di...>]

> 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.

Fred:
>   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!

This is fine, but since the framework still catches AssertionError,
the gain is minimal.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)