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by charcircuit 1583 days ago
Does unittest cause an exception when the second argument isn't a string? That would catch some of these I'd imagine.
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lozenge 1583 days ago
They should make `msg` a keyword-only argument on all the TestCase.assert* statements. It wouldn't be the first breaking change of this type.

Searching for announced breaking changes about arguments to Python included functions...

https://bugs.python.org/issue25628

https://bugs.python.org/issue29193

https://bugs.python.org/issue36492

https://bugs.python.org/issue29209

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rikatee 1583 days ago
it does not, it just prints them out in the console
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