Re: [Pyunit-interest] How to test a condition

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

Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> >>>>> "SP" == Steve Purcell <ste...@ya...> writes:
>   SP> So the best idea is probably to favour the TestCase methods such
>   SP> as 'failUnless()' over the 'assert' statement.
> 
> And I'd still like to see a version of these methods that are in
> positive form.  assert() is much clearer than failUnless().  Since
> assert is not allowed (it's a keyword), I'd prefer something like
> verify().  


Actually, there has been an 'assert_()' since the first version, and the set
of such 'positive form' methods in TestCase is currently:

   assert_()
   assertEqual()
   assertNotEqual()
   assertRaises()

I think in terms of what might constitute a test failure, so I like to
use the 'fail()' methods. YMMV.

-Steve

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