http://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html#assert-methods

The docs say, "The TestCase class provides a number of methods to check for and report failures, such as", and then when you scroll a couple of screens down, there's another list, "There are also other methods used to perform more specific checks, such as".  These should be merged into a single list.  There's nothing fundamentally different about the two lists and breaking them into two parts just makes it harder to find what you want.