On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is an example of the problem with doctest -- it's easy to > overspecify the tests. I don't think that whether the repr() of a > Decimal uses single or double quotes should be considered a spec cast > in stone by doctests. > OK, but I'm just thinking of all the places in tests we have stuff like: >>> var.method(params) expected_repr_of_return_value We should really be doing something else to guard against a potential future change in repr of whatever it is? Thanks, Karen
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