[svn r42188] Revive test/compat.py again, seems to work fine for me. Can be used by patching sys.modules["unittest"] in the conftest.py file.

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py/test/compat.py

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+import py
+from py.__.test.outcome import Failed, Passed
+
+
+class TestCaseUnit(py.test.collect.Function):
+    """ compatibility Unit executor for TestCase methods
+        honouring setUp and tearDown semantics.
+    """
+    def execute(self, session):
+        boundmethod = self.obj 
+        instance = boundmethod.im_self 
+        instance.setUp()
+        try:
+            boundmethod()
+        finally:
+            instance.tearDown()
+        return Passed()
+
+class TestCase(object):
+    """compatibility class of unittest's TestCase. """
+    Function = TestCaseUnit
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        pass
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        pass
+
+    def fail(self, msg=None):
+        """ fail immediate with given message. """
+        raise Failed(msg=msg)
+
+    def assertRaises(self, excclass, func, *args, **kwargs):
+        py.test.raises(excclass, func, *args, **kwargs)
+    failUnlessRaises = assertRaises
+
+    # dynamically construct (redundant) methods
+    aliasmap = [
+        ('x',   'not x', 'assert_, failUnless'),
+        ('x',   'x',     'failIf'),
+        ('x,y', 'x!=y',  'failUnlessEqual,assertEqual, assertEquals'),
+        ('x,y', 'x==y',  'failIfEqual,assertNotEqual, assertNotEquals'),
+        ]
+    items = []
+    for sig, expr, names in aliasmap:
+        names = map(str.strip, names.split(','))
+        sigsubst = expr.replace('y', '%s').replace('x', '%s')
+        for name in names:
+            items.append("""
+                def %(name)s(self, %(sig)s, msg=""):
+                    __tracebackhide__ = True
+                    if %(expr)s:
+                        raise Failed(msg=msg + (%(sigsubst)r %% (%(sig)s)))
+            """ % locals() )
+
+    source = "".join(items)
+    exec py.code.Source(source).compile()
+
+__all__ = ['TestCase']