no aliases for "assertItemsEqual" (2) and "assertCountEqual" (3)

[berleant]

six.py has an alias for it, making me wonder why future.utils doesn't.

https://pythonhosted.org/six/#six.assertCountEqual

[jayvdb]

These two methods only would create more incompatibilities.

This problem is adequately solved by using unittest2.
Perhaps python-future could do the patchwork necessary to add unittest2 when it is needed?

[nilliams]

Also would like to see this in future.

It's a pain that Py3 basically broke this, seemingly by accident if you read the history. Seems like the perfect pain point for future to patch over.

Needing unittest2 for this seems overkill.