[Tutor] problems with doctest: apparent interferance between tests (LONG)

[Brian van den Broek]

Rich Krauter said unto the world upon 2005-04-10 20:53:
> Brian van den Broek wrote:
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> FWIW, I ran your code using python 2.3.4 on linux with the following 
> modifications, and it worked fine (no failing tests out of 9):

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Hi Rich, Kent, and all,

thanks for these additional datapoints, Rich. And thanks too, Kent for 
  the additional pointers in your most recent post.

But for the list's help, I don't know if I would have emerged from the 
weekend still retaining what sanity I have left :-)

Best to all,

Brian vdB