Opened 15 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
#9738 closed (wontfix)
unit test examples in docs use old "failUnless" methods instead of new "assert" methods
| Reported by: | brandon | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | Documentation | Version: | 1.0 |
| Severity: | Keywords: | ||
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
The unit testing examples are using the old "failUnlessEqual" UnitTest method instead of the new "assertEquals" methods. The "fail*" methods might become deprecated soon in the 2.x series, and I think have gone away completely in Python 3, so we should be teaching the Django legions to use the more modern names.
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Those methods still exist, so using them is fine. Django supports Python 2.3 - 2.6, all of which have those methods. If we changed to use the new methods, we'd end up having to add a note to mention the alternative names for Python 2.3, which makes things seem more complicated than they really are.
This isn't worth changing at the moment, since it works fine with all the Python we support. There'll be lots of changes for Python 3 and we don't run on that at the moment.