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Re: Python < 3.5 tests

From	Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net>
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Subject	Re: Python < 3.5 tests
Date	2015-10-08 01:00 +0200
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On 8 October 2015 at 11:47, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au> writes:
>
>> I see that there is a python3-unittest2 package - should I be using that
>> one or the unittest built in Python 3.5?
>
> If you have a code base that is intended to run unchanged on Python 2
> and Python 3, and that code base imports ‘unittest2’, you need both the
> Python 2 and Python 3 version of that package.
>
> If your code base targets only Python 3, it should not be using
> ‘unittest2’ at all.

Thats false. unittest2 is a rolling backport. A true statement would
be 'if your codebase will only ever run on the latest release of
Python then unittest2 offers no value' for it.

-Rob


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Re: Python < 3.5 tests Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-10-07 23:20 +0200
  Re: Python < 3.5 tests Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au> - 2015-10-08 00:30 +0200
    Re: Python < 3.5 tests Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-10-08 00:50 +0200
      Re: Python < 3.5 tests Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-10-08 01:00 +0200
        Re: Python < 3.5 tests Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-10-08 01:10 +0200
          Re: Python < 3.5 tests Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-10-08 01:20 +0200
    Re: Python < 3.5 tests Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-10-08 01:00 +0200

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