I am using nosetest tools for asserting a python unittest:

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from nose.tools import assert_equals, assert_almost_equalclass TestPolycircles(unittest.TestCase):def setUp(self):self.latitude = 32.074322self.longitude = 34.792081self.radius_meters = 100self.number_of_vertices = 36self.vertices = polycircles.circle(latitude=self.latitude,longitude=self.longitude,radius=self.radius_meters,number_of_vertices=self.number_of_vertices)def test_number_of_vertices(self):"""Asserts that the number of vertices in the approximation polygonmatches the input."""assert_equals(len(self.vertices), self.number_of_vertices)...

When I run python setup.py test, I get a deprecation warning:

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Asserts that the number of vertices in the approximation polygon ...
/Users/adamatan/personal/polycircles/polycircles/test/test_polycircles.py:22:    
DeprecationWarning: Please use assertEqual instead.assert_equals(len(self.vertices), self.number_of_vertices)
ok
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I could not find any assertEqual in nose tools. Where is this warning coming from, and how can I fix it?

The nose.tools assert_* functions are just automatically created PEP8 aliases for the TestCase methods, so assert_equals is the same as TestCase.assertEquals().

However, the latter was only ever an alias for TestCase.assertEqual() (note: no trailing s). The warning is meant to tell you that instead of TestCase.assertEquals() you need to use TestCase.assertEqual() as the alias has been deprecated.

For nose.tools that translates into using assert_equal (no trailing s):

from nose.tools import assert_equal, assert_almost_equaldef test_number_of_vertices(self):"""Asserts that the number of vertices in the approximation polygonmatches the input."""assert_equal(len(self.vertices), self.number_of_vertices)

Had you used assert_almost_equals (with trailing s), you'd have seen a similar warning to use assertAlmostEqual, as well.