[TIP] Functions for tests instead of classes

[Michael Foord]

On 15/03/2010 17:46, Pekka Klärck wrote:
> [snip...]
>> Then, to retain compatibility with older versions of unittest, the TestCase
>> object can contain a bunch of trivial methods like:
>>
>>    def assertEqual(self, a, b) :
>>       return assertEqual(a,b)
>>      
> Yep, keeping backwards compatibility would be trivial. Are there any
> good reasons not to do this?
>    

Per TestCase failureException is one reason.

Michael

> Cheers,
>      .peke
>    


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