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Fri Jul 29 02:39:47 CEST 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-July/112611.html

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> However, is there any reason why test.support itself shouldn't be renamed
>> test._support, or possibly _test.support, so that the *entire* suite is
>> marked as a private implementation detail?
>
> Technically no for the _test idea, although it would promote the idea of not
> shipping Python with its tests, which would be a shame as it's hard enough
> to get people to run them. Renaming test.support is much more acceptable,
> just more work considering how many times that module is used in the test
> suite.

Moving the docs should deal with the module and name indexing issue,
so -1 one to expending any developer effort on unnecessary name
changes in the test suite.

Cheers,
Nick.

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