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Re: annoying doctest problem

From Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject Re: annoying doctest problem
Date 2015-01-12 16:46 +0000
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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

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annoying doctest problem gordianknot1981@gmail.com - 2015-01-11 20:20 -0800
  Re: annoying doctest problem gordianknot1981@gmail.com - 2015-01-11 20:30 -0800
  Re: annoying doctest problem Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-12 05:24 +0000
    Re: annoying doctest problem Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-01-12 06:15 -0600
      Re: annoying doctest problem Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-13 00:00 +1100
        Re: annoying doctest problem Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-12 14:59 +0000
          Re: annoying doctest problem Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-13 02:58 +1100
            Re: annoying doctest problem Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-12 16:46 +0000
        Re: annoying doctest problem Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-01-12 12:15 -0600
    Re: annoying doctest problem Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-01-12 06:32 -0600
  Re: annoying doctest problem Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-01-12 10:47 -0500
    Re: annoying doctest problem gordianknot1981@gmail.com - 2015-01-12 10:34 -0800

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