[Skip] I was adding __all__ to the random module and I noticed this very unpythonic example in the module docstring:
[Tim] Did you miss the sentence preceding the example, starting "Just for fun"?
I did, yes.
[Guido] In that vein, the example isn't compatible with doctest, is it?
[Tim] I'm not sure what you're asking.
I interpreted Guido's comment to mean, "why include a useless example in documentation?" I guess that was my implicit assumption as well (again, ignoring the missed "just for fun" quote). Either it's a useful example embedded in the documentation or it's a test case that is perhaps not likely to be useful to an end user in which case it should be accessed via the module's __test__ dictionary.
guido-did-i-channel-you-properly-ly? yr's,
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