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May 12, 2014 at 09:57
Python 3 fact of the day: map and filter are lazy in Python 3 (which is a change from Python 2).

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Assertions are a surprisingly nuanced design space. In a test, if I assert `x < y`, I really want to see the values of x and y when it fails. Do you define an API for every possible predicate (Python's assertLess, expect.js) or try to support the native syntax (c.f. pytest)?