[Python-ideas] doctest

[Mark Janssen]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I just thought of something:  isn't the obvious solution is for doctest
> to
> > test the type of an expression's output and if it's in the set of
> unordered
> > types {set, dict} to run sort() on it?  Then the docstring author can
> just
> > put the (sorted) output of what's expected....
>
> What if the output is a list of dicts?


Right, thanks.  Although I suppose in theory one could go deep -- take the
deepcopy code and instead of an exact copy replace any unordered types with
their sorted copies.

mark.
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