merits of Lisp vs Python

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Sun Dec 17 23:46:39 EST 2006


On 11 Dec 2006 03:01:32 -0800, Ravi Teja <webraviteja at gmail.com> wrote:
>Timofei Shatrov wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>Of course, doctest is hardly the ultimate testing solution. But it does
>an admirable job for many cases where you don't need to setup elaborate
>tests.
>
>> It's not surprising that no one uses this stuff for serious work.
>
>I have seen enough libraries that use doctest. Zope, Twisted and Paste
>are some of the popular Python projects in that use it. Epydoc supports
>it as well.

Just as a factual correction, Twisted does not use doctests.

Jean-Paul



More information about the Python-list mailing list