Re: [Pyunit-interest] comments on PyUnit

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

Steve Purcell writes:
 > I decided against that; the extra level of traceback output is unsightly.
 > The failure exception is now parameterised, and the framework is not written
 > such that it would be safe and/or desirable to override fail() in subclasses.

  Guido agrees with you, and I just wasn't thinking about the extra
traceback cruft.

 > I also decided against this; fail() does not have a common-sense
 > 'assert' counterpart, and 'assertNot' is better served by 'assert_(not expr)'
 > for those users who prefer 'assert*' to 'fail*'.

  Again, Guido agrees.  His expected usage was different, but
exactly equivalent:

	if expr:
            self.fail(...)

(This has the advantage of being just slightly faster as well.)


  -Fred

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