[Python-Dev] Proposed unittest changes

Mon Jul 14 11:14:20 CEST 2008

Ben Finney wrote:
> Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:
>>> Michael Foord wrote:
>>> Adding the following new asserts:
>>>>>> assertIn (member, container, msg=None)
>>> assertNotIn (member, container, msg=None)
>>> assertIs (first, second, msg=None)
>>> assertNotIs (first, second, msg=None)
>> Please, let's call this one "assertIsNot". I know it's valid Python
>> to say
>>>> if a not is b:
>>>> but it's a much less natural way of expressing the condition, and
>> (for all I know) might even introduce an extra negation operation.
>> "is not" is, I believe, treated as a single operator.
>> Dang. You're exactly right.
>> The problem is, that makes it quite inconsistent with other "not" uses
> (such as "assert_not_equal", "assert_not_in", etc.) I would really
> prefer that all these "not" uses be gramatically consistent for
> predictability. Is this a case where "assert_is_not" should exist
> alongside "assert_not_is"?

If we can flip the word order in the language syntax, we can sure as 
heck flip it in a method name :)
Cheers,
Nick.
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