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Tue Jul 15 19:55:00 CEST 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-July/081191.html

> So far I have "precedent and tradition" and "positive admonition looks
> better" in support of preferring the 'assert*' names. Are there any
> others?

Avoiding double negatives.
(and don't tell me "fail" is not a negative word, because you just used
the phrase "positive admonition" to refer to the assert* variants, which
implies quite clearly that the fail* variants are on the negative
side ;-))

Regards

Antoine.

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[Python-Dev] PEP: Consolidating names and classes in the `unittest` module (updated 2008-07-15)