[issue6703] cross platform failure and silly test in doctest

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

Patch looks good.  One error and style suggestions on rietveld.

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components: +Library (Lib)
nosy: +eric.araujo
stage:  -> patch review
versions: +Python 3.1 -Python 2.6

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