[Python-Dev] doctest, unicode repr, and 2to3

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 05, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>String type is actually very important, if you don't want your
>application/library to fail in the face of non-ASCII data.
>
>That's why we did all this thing in py3k, after all :)

That's not actually what I mean.  I meant that in doctests, you probably don't
need to be confronted by the string type every single time.  It's just not
that interesting for documentation, most of the time.  I have no problem
adding (unit)tests that ensure your outputs and values are of the expected
type though!

-Barry
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