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Subject: Re: How can I hide my stack frames in a TestCase subclass?
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Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:

> However, there was an implied question in the "documented" part: can
> we rely on it? Isn't it considered an implementation detail (names
> starting with underscores)?

"Not documented" was my implied answer.

I think you have a valid use case, though, so you could make a feature 
request for an official way to hide stack frames on the bugtracker 
http://bugs.python.org or the python-ideas mailing list.