Re: [Pyunit-interest] comments on PyUnit

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

> > >     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.

Excellent point.  I withdraw the suggestion.

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