"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The intuition that "fail" is a negative word is thus well-founded in > standard usage.
That's not the same thing as "fail" being a negative word in the sense meant by "double negative". That is, "not fail" is not a double negative; nor is "fail if X is not inside Y" a double negative. The use of "fail" in those phrases is a action, a verb, not a "negative". So, this issue of avoiding "fail" in order to "avoid double negatives" has no basis in the use of "fail" in unittest. -- \ “It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take | `\ hold” —Hunter S. Tolkien, _Fear and Loathing in Barad-Dûr_ | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
