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Author brett.cannon
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, gvanrossum, mark.dickinson, rhettinger
Date 2008-12-07.21:30:29
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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 13:26, Mark Dickinson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
>
> Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> About unittest:
>
> unittest.TestLoader has an attribute "sortTestMethodsUsing", which it
> expects to be an old-style comparison.
>
> Should this attribute be updated (and renamed?) to expect a key function
> instead, or left as is?
>

It will break backwards-compatibility if you change it. Possibly the
best solution is to introduce a new attribute that does either key or
just lt comparison and make sortTestMethodsUsing be a descriptor that
wraps the function as needed.
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