On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I didn't mean to give the impression that doctest was wrong to be fussy, or > dumb if you prefer. I think it's exactly the right behaviour. > I wasn't actually concerned that Steven might have misunderstood how doctest works, just that other less experienced programmers might interpret his statement as suggesting that doctest's comparisons were somehow wrong or might be made less "fussy". That word suggests to me that there is some sort of critical evaluation by the fussy party going on (doctest, in this case), when there is none. Which is why I chose the word "dumb." Skip
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