[zahlman]

I can remember in the mid-00s especially, Python gurus were really fond of saying "Python is not Java". But `unittest` was "inspired by" JUnit and `logging` looks an awful lot like my mental image of Log4J of the time.

> But recently I heard more extreme advice - someone recommended "write every function as a member of a class" and "put every class in its own file".

Good heavens.

[sevensor]

Not coincidentally, these are two of my least favorite parts of the standard library. Logging especially makes me grumpy, with its hidden global state and weird action at a distance. It’s far too easy to use logging wrong. And unittest just feels like every other unit testing framework from that era, which is to say, vastly overcomplicated for what it does.