On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
Devin,
You need to start writing real code rather than continue to tell us that the problems are minor and easily fixable, and the solutions are uncontroversial. To those who have tried and thought about it, the problems are *not* easy to solve , except for some superficial edge cases that you and other critics of doctest keep focusing on.
I already did write real code. In the context of this discussion, I implemented a +LITERAL_EVAL flag. Was there something else I was supposed to write, other than the solution I advocated? ;) https://bitbucket.org/devin.jeanpierre/doctest2/src/e084a682ccbc/doctest2/co...
And please don't propose that we change the behavior of dict or other data types itself, or add new APIs to objects just for the purpose of "fixing" doctest's issues.
I would never dream of it. That's pretty obscene. -- Devin