doctest, unittest, or if __name__='__main__'

[john_sips_tea at yahoo.com]

> so you think that a "why all this creativity when you could just
> standardize on something ported from java, and throw away every-
> thing else" post is friendly ?  really ?

Sorry for the sloppy writing. Thanks for clarifying. I wrote:

> If unittest is the standard way to write test code, why do we still
> have doctest? (I notice there's no mention in PEP 3000 of deprecating
> the doctest module).

when that should've been

> If one is the standard way to write test code, why do we still
> have the other one? (I notice there's no mention in PEP 3000 of
> deprecating either module).

Also, as an aside, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong
with porting something from Java (or Smalltalk, or any other
language). Such ported software may or may not be a good fit
for Python.