[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, since this is a mailing list where this sort of thing is
> discussed, and since I was was asking about which way
> is preferred, could you tell us why you (presumably) think
> doctest is vastly superior to unittest?
doctest comes with extensive documentation, which, among other
things, discuss the advantages of using doctest. have you read the
documentation ?
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-doctest.html
> > don't you have better things to do with your time ?
>
> That wasn't very friendly.
so you think that a "why all this creativity when you could just
standardize on something ported from java, and throw away every-
thing else" post is friendly ? really ?
> Anyhow, I'm not attacking doctest, but rather, just trying
> to understand why there seems to be two very similar ways
> of testing your code built into the system (considering that
> one motto around here is "There should be one -- and
> preferably only one -- obvious way to do it.").
if you think that motto means that there should be only one non-
deprecated solution to any higher-level problem, you've completely
and utterly missed the point.
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