Re: [Pyunit-interest] comments on PyUnit

[Steve P. <ste...@ya...>]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >     assert_(expr)
> 
> This is an ugly name, though (and that's what started this debate).


Hey, it's not my fault you bagged 'assert' first. :-)


> >     assertEquals(a,b)
> 
> Why even bother with this?  I'd say assert_(a == b) is good enough.


Judging by the number of requests I've had for this, it seems that when
an equality assertion of two objects fails, one almost always wants to see
what the actual value was. So one ends up writing

   self.assert_(a == b, "%s != %s" % (a, b))

all over the place. Since I added 'assertEquals' I've used it enough that
I understand why it was requested.

-Steve

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