Comment 4 for bug 144569

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Jim Fulton (jim-zope) wrote : Re: [Bug 144569] Re: zope.testing.doctest can't handle non-ascii output

On Sep 24, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Benji York wrote:

> Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> Is there a list of what these differences are? Is there any
>> information
>> on what's special about Zope's doctest that the Zope tests rely on?
>
> Not really. I've taken a stab at reconciling the two with only diffs
> and check-in messages to go on, but eventually ran out of steam when I
> got a version that would pass doctest.py's internal tests, but
> wouldn't
> pass Python's doctest tests.
>
> The only real added feature in zope.testing's doctest I can think
> of is
> the reST footnote support. The remainder, IIRC, are bug fixes of one
> flavor or another.

There are enhancements to the test metrics that we'd like to
differently someday.

There may be better pdb support. I'mm not sure.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation