On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:55:59 pm Thomas Lotze wrote: > I'm surprised nobody (that I've noticed) has brought up the point yet > that test code is a lot easier to read if it makes positive > assertions.
Please don't claim that your subjective opinion is an objective fact. > When reading failure conditions, one has to constantly > invert them in order to deduce the behaviour that is tested. You might have to. Don't assume that everyone else has your difficulty. > failUnless and friends aren't better either IMO since while they do > work with positive assertions, the method names themselves are doubly > negative. assert* methods are so much more straightforward to > comprehend. Maybe for you. That's not a human universal. Please don't assume that your favourite bike-shed colour must be the favourite colour of everyone else too. -- Steven _______________________________________________ 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
