On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:23:49 -0800, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > I may be unique, but I fear there is no great answer. On the one hand > I almost always code it as e.g. assertEqual(actual, expected), which > matches my preference for e.g. "if x =3D=3D 5:" rather than "if 5 =3D=3D x:= > ". > On the other hand in those assert* functions that show a nice diff of > two lists, when reading such a diff my expectation is that "old, new" > corresponds to "expected, actual". Which then freaks me out until I > realize that I coded it as "actual, expected"... And yet "expected, > actual" still looks weird to me. :-(
You aren't unique, I feel the same way. But it seems to me that the most important thing is to be consistent, so that I don't freak out for long. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com _______________________________________________ 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