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Wed Mar 19 17:21:14 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-March/077827.html

2008/3/19, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>:

>  > +1 to assert* from me. the fail* variants always feel like
>  > double-negatives. I also always use assertTrue instead of assert_. But
>  > I don't care enough to argue about it. :)

+1 to the plain affirmative propositions (assert*) instead of the
kind-of-double-negative stuff. It helps a lot specially if you're not
a native english speaker.

+1 to remove them in Py3k.

Questions:

- 2to3 should "fix" them?

- should we add a warning in 2.6 and remove them in 2.7? Or 2.7/2.8?

Regards,

-- 
.    Facundo

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