[Python-Dev] Doctest and Footnotes

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Benji York <benji <at> zope.com> writes:


> 
> Here's the idea: when a footnote is referenced in prose, execute the 
> code associated with the footnote at that point.  For example:
>

Another natural place for the referenced code is the __test__ dictionary.
Using that has an advantage of not clobbering the display in the default
pydoc viewer.