doctest, unittest, or if __name__='__main__'

[john_sips_tea at yahoo.com]

> and you can kill two birds with one stone.

By that, do you mean you can write your tests and your
docstrings in one shot with doctest?

> I would like to see yet another alternatise such as py.test
> in the standard lib,

Ah: http://codespeak.net/py/current/doc/home.html