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 == 5:" rather than "if 5 == 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. :-(
This could be nicely resolved by renaming the arguments "a" and "b", and having the diff display "a, b". It's quite natural (both the diff ordering and the arguments ordering), and they are consistent with each other. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
