#18727: Remove django.test._doctest
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Reporter: aaugustin | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: Testing framework | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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We have copied this module from the standard library and submitted the
patch to Python's bug tracker six years ago:
http://bugs.python.org/issue1521051
Patching our copy to support both Python 2 and 3 increases severely the
amount of changes from Python's version. It becomes much harder to apply
upstream changes.
Unfortunately the ticket is stuck, because the patch we provided didn't
include tests. Even if tests were added and the patch was committed now,
we'd have to deprecate all Pythons <= 3.3 before removing our copy and
relying on the stdlib. This isn't going to happen in the next five years.
Since Django moved away from using doctests, and as suggested by Russell
two years ago in the tickets comments, we should deprecate our copy.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18727>
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