[Python-Dev] Deprecate doctest?

[Aahz]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Aahz wrote:
>>On Mon, Dec 16, 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>Aahz:
>>>>
>>>>That's tricky, given that doctest is in the standard library, and that's
>>>>exactly what doctest does.  Are you advocating deprecating doctest?
>>>
>>>You gotta be kidding.
>>
>>Of *course* I was, but I couldn't figure out what else MAL meant.
> 
> Inever talked about doctest; only the fact that error message
> strings should not be relied on since these tend to change
> rather often between Python releases. It is also possible that
> some of these cat get localized (I remember having seen Martin work
> on something like this in the past).

I'd say a better statement is "rely only on error strings that you
control; don't rely on Python's internal error strings".
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