[TIP] Unittest Changes

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon Jul 21 13:42:22 PDT 2008


"Pekka Laukkanen" <peke at iki.fi> writes:

> 2) Having PEP-8-style aliases for asserts. PEP-8 reminds that
> consistency within a module is most important, but now my test modules
> have inconsistent lines like
> """self.assertEquals(do_something_interesting, expected_value)""".

Yes, please. At least let us write PEP 8 conformant code in our unit
tests, even if others are slow to migrate from the legacy names.

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