On 17 July 2015 at 08:30, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > By definition, advocating to not add cruft to an API is going to be in > advance of being bitten by those additions.
That's not what people are doing. Folks are actually arguing for *restoring* the ability to mock out method names starting with "assret_*". I still don't know why anyone thinks restoring that would be a worthwhile use of a maintainers' time (or why they thinking arguing in favour of such a capability is a worthwhile use of theirs). None of the perspectives presented in this thread are new, although the apparent obsession over such a minor detail has made it abundantly clear that this kind of helper simply isn't worth the distraction it creates for maintainers, *regardless* of whether or not it helps end users. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
