On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Florian Apolloner <f.apollo...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> a) Does this matter at all? I mean what's the difference? You ask if they
> are equal and if not you get an error ;)
>

Other xUnit framework actually show an error message explicit about it,
saying "expected 'foo', actual 'bar'". Python's unittest just says "foo !=
bar".

The difference is slightly more understandable error message when an
equality test fails: you know what the actual result was supposed to be


> b) I think it's the wrong mailing list for design decisions python took…
>

Or perhaps lack of design decision in this case? (I'm not sure it was
intentional)

Regards,
    D.

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