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On 12/01/2015 15:58, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> If doctest is dumb then that's clearly down to the author.  Perhaps we
>> should refer him or her to the Zen of Python so they don't repeat the
>> mistake with future design decisions?
>
> o_O
>
>
> I don't even ...
>
> wait ...
>
> [starts typing]
>
> [stops typing]
>
> ... okay.
>

Drat, drat and double drat, for just one minute I thought I'd hooked a 
large, highly respected Antipodean :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence