[Python-Dev] Unit testing (again)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> [MAL]
> > Since exception message are not defined anywhere I'd suggest
> > to simply ignore them in the output.
> 
> Virtually nothing about Python's output is clearly defined, and for doc
> purposes I want to capture what Python actually does.

But what it does write to the console changes with every 
release (e.g. just take the repr() changes for strings with 
non-ASCII data)... this simply breaks you test suite every time 
Writing Python programs which work on Python 1.5-2.1 which at 
the same time pass the doctest unit tests becomes impossible.

The regression suite (and most other Python software) catches
exceptions based on the exception class -- why isn't this enough
for your doctest.py checks ?

nit-pickling-ly,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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