[Zope-dev] Why I dislike narrative doctests

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:47:59PM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>
> On Apr 23, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> ...
>> The point of my message was not to whine
>> about the state of zope.testing, but to present a new argument against
>> the current fashion of using plain-text narrative doctests for
>> everything.
>
> Except that that is not the current fashion, which has been pointed out 
> many times in many places.

For my own record (I must have missed this many times in many places), is the
current fashion something along the lines:

"Use the various test styles as reasonable, text-file narrative doctests are
preferred."

?

Christian

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