[Python-Dev] For review: PEP 285: Adding a bool type (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Sun, 10 Mar 2002 02:20:07 -0500

[Samuele Pedroni]

And will improve doc tests doc readability .

[Samuele Pedroni]

Oops that should have been

And will improve doctest test docstrings readability . or doc tests readability .

I don't think David uses doctest in that way -- to my surprise, most doctest users don't seem to write documentation at all .

In the core it doesn't matter: the libraries for a release ship with that release, and only need to work with that release. So s/1/True/ etc is fine there. I don't mind changing stuff like that, and to the contrary think it's valuable to get kicked in the teeth with that output is changing with a new release (indeed, automatically catching changes that ordinarily never get caught is one of doctest's primary goals). I think changing stuff like that irritates Guido, though, because he wants to pretend that users don't care what Python displays from release to release<0.9 wink>.