I often use doctests to verify APIs and behaviors when I update code. I know I'm in a minority and most developers slightly disparage doctests.
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 6:41 PM Michael Selik <m...@selik.org> wrote: > Sounds good to me. It'll make OrderedDict look much nicer at the REPL. > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 10:21 AM Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > >> I am not sure what our repr change policy is, as there is a >> back-compatibility issue but I remember there being changes. > > > Given the way different Python prompts feel free to change reprs, I always > understood the repr to have no compatibility guarantees. > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 10:31 AM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > >> Repr changes are likely to break doctests, at least. That's not >> necessarily an absolute "no", but it does raise the bar. >> > > Breaking doctests is somewhat annoying, but I understand that to be more > about verifying the accuracy of documentation than verifying the > correctness of code. It's handy for following TDD, but that's during the > initial development and a changed repr won't interfere. > >
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