[Python-Dev] Purpose of Doctests [Was: Best practices for Enum] (original) (raw)

Dan Stromberg drsalists at gmail.com
Sun May 19 18:14:12 CEST 2013


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Raymond Hettinger < raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:

On May 14, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote: Bad: doctests.

I'm hoping that core developers don't get caught-up in the "doctests are bad meme".

Don't doctests intended for CPython not work on Jython, Pypy, IronPython...

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