[Python-Dev] test_doctest failing, but perhaps by accident

[Michael Hudson]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one@home.com> writes:

> I'm calling this one a bug in doctest.py, and will fix it there.  Ugly:
> since we can longer rely on list.sort() not raising exceptions, it won't be
> enough to replace the existing
> 
>     for k, v in dict.items():
> 
> with
> 
>     items = dict.items()
>     items.sort()
>     for k, v in items:

Hmm, reading through these posts for summary purposes, it occurs to me
that this *is* safe, 'cause item 0 of the tuples will always be
distinct strings, and as equal-length tuples are compared
lexicographically, the values will never actually be compared!

pointless-ly y'rs
M.

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