paul moore vlasdutgmailcom 19032008 michael urman wrote otoh id rather oowtdi whatever consensus fine strikes gratuitous api change kind guido warning recent post dont change apis incompatibly porting py3k seems compelling glyph mentioned testing apis critical ones keep working moving 2 3 1 change part 30 either 26 wouldnt satisfy backward compatibility requirements defer 31 later ok starting 30 deprecated methods nuisance testing framework seems valid special case dont bother bad paul _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 154526 0000 pythondev unittests redundant assertions asserts vs failifunlesses