This, along with the code breakage is why we didn’t rename this or things in the unittest module during the 2->3 migration (and you can see the breakage that occurred when the deprecated methods from unittest were recently taken out shows people will not necessarily upgrade willingly). I think if the API naming bothers you it would be better to create a wrapper and post it to PyPI at this point than expect a grand renaming of that module’s API.
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