Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> added the comment: Some statistics from our large code base as to which of the assert methods get used relative to the others:
These percentages are relative to the count of assertEqual(s) uses being 100% and cover python code written by a crazy large number of engineers. assertListEqual 4.61% assertNotEqual(s) 1.91% assertDictEqual 1.90% assertIn 1.75% assertSameElements 1.08% assertIsNone 0.47% assertGreater 0.37% assertMultiLineEqual 0.36% assertNotIn 0.36% assertLess 0.24% assertRaisesWithRegexpMatch 0.23% assertIsNotNone 0.20% assertSetEqual 0.16% assertGreaterEqual 0.11% assertLessEqual 0.09% assertTupleEqual 0.04% assertSequenceEqual 0.04% assertDictContainsSubset 0.02% assertSequenceEqual is used by the List and Tuple equal functions so its stand alone use isn't that relevant. DictContainsSubset does not appear to be used much. I -did- add casing for the type to the main assertEqual method so it may make sense to make the new type specific methods private so that they're not part of the public API (ie: I agree with pitrou that it seems pointless). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2578> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
