assertEquals vs. assertEqual in python

Question

Is there a difference between assertEquals and assertEqual in the python unittest.TestCase?

And if there is not, why are there

Answer 1

I think this was tension between the "only one obvious way to do it" vs. "alias to make the overall code flow semantically". Personally I found I like to read

failIf(some_condition)

over

assertFalse(some_condition)

but liked

assertEqual(a, b)

over the other two (assertEquals(a, b) bothers my sense of grammar).

The "only one obvious way to do it" has taken precedence going forward.