Every Python Assert Method in One List

I am constantly looking up assert methods on the Python 2 Unit Test Documentation and it's driving me crazy because that page is super long and hard to mentally parse. The lists of assert methods available are broken up in different sections on the page and I'm done searching around it.

Writing unit tests in Python obviously requires heavy use of assert methods, but for some reason they're buried in the Python documentation.

So here's a compiled list of all of them for my reference, but maybe this is useful for someone else out there too...

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Python Assert Methods

Method	Checks	Version
assertEqual	a == b
assertNotEqual	a != b
assertTrue	bool(x) is True
assertFalse	bool(x) is False
assertIs	a is b	2.7
assertIsNot	a is not b	2.7
assertIsNone	x is None	2.7
assertIsNotNone	x is not None	2.7
assertIn	a in b	2.7
assertNotIn	a not in b	2.7
assertIsInstance	is instance(a,b)	2.7
assertNotIsInstance	not is instance(a,b)	2.7
assertRaises	fun(args,kwds) raises exc*
assertRaisesRegexp	fun(args,kwds) raises exc*(regex)	2.7
assertAlmostEqual	round(a-b,7) == 0
assertNotAlmostEqual	round(a-b,7) != 0
assertGreater	a > b	2.7
assertGreaterEqual	a >= b	2.7
assertLess	a < b	2.7
assertLessEqual	a <= b	2.7
assertRegexpMatches	r.search(s)	2.7
assertNotRegexpMatches	not r.search(s)	2.7
assertItemsEqual	sorted(a) == sorted(b)	2.7
assertDictContainsSubset	all the key/value pairs in a exist in b	2.7
assertMultiLineEqual	strings	2.7
assertSequenceEqual	sequences	2.7
assertListEqual	lists	2.7
assertTupleEqual	tuples	2.7
assertSetEqual	sets or frozensets	2.7
assertDictEqual	dicts	2.7

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