"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Terry Reedy writes:
> 
>  > For the community as a whole, all stdlib modules are suggestions
>  > and examples, not commands.
> 
> Well, even if "standard" is too strong a word, the DeprecationWarnings
> and eventual removal of the methods surely constitute an imposition.

I understood Terry's statement as meaning that there is no commandment
to use the standard library 'unittest' module at all. If a user
doesn't like the behaviour of a module (such as 'unittest') in the
standard library, they can accept the burden of implementing one that
behaves the way they like.

-- 
 \       “I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make |
  `\                                      an exception.” —Groucho Marx |
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Ben Finney

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