[Python-checkins] cpython: whatsnew: unittest uses argparse now.

Mon Feb 24 03:38:13 CET 2014

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/925528b20416
changeset: 89349:925528b20416
user: R David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>
date: Sun Feb 23 21:02:53 2014 -0500
summary:
 whatsnew: unittest uses argparse now.
files:
 Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1889,6 +1889,11 @@
 ``_removeTestAtIndex`` method that does nothing (see
 :meth:`.TestSuite.__iter__`) (:issue:`11798`).
 
+* :mod:`unittest` now uses :mod:`argparse` for command line parsing. There are
+ certain invalid command forms that used to work that are no longer allowed;
+ in theory this should not cause backward compatibility issues since the
+ disallowed command forms didn't make any sense and are unlikely to be in use.
+
 
 Changes in the C API
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Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython
