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". -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it." --reddy@lion.austin.ibm.com
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