On Oct 31, 2010, at 09:54 AM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: >> - moving the documentation to an "advanced" or "complete reference" section >> > >Agreed, I perfer simply deemphasizing these methods by reorganizing the >documentation and mentioning in their documentation to, "just use >assertEqual." De-documenting them is the first step towards causing >unnecessary pain by taking either of the next two steps: > >- make the methods non-public by prepending an underscore >> - leaving them public but adding deprecation warnings to the code >> > >Please do not make any existing released methods from the unittest module >non-public or add any deprecation warnings. That will simply cause >unnecessary code churn and pain for people porting their code from one >version to the next without benefiting anyone.
I was hoping someone would get my not-too-subtle hint. :) -Barry
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