-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ben Finney wrote: > "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.
One might argue that making gratutiously backward-incompatible changes to the existing 'unittest' module should fall under that heading: stability in that package is going to be crucial for projects which have any hope of making it across the 2-to-3 gulf, and they won't all get there at once. If camelCase / duplicated names are such a pain, write a *new* module, 'unittest2', and port Python's tests to use it, thereby leaving the much larger volume of not-in-Python tests still working. One might then remove the 'unittest' module in a later release, packaging it as a standalone distibution for the projects which still need it. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIfk2/+gerLs4ltQ4RAjd7AJ4iRGnOp+Udw9Jth/VtdMJhJWL50QCePUEY O1fn7KSSIfIGr0HbIX2xl74= =s0m/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
