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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2004-09-26 05:13:18 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2004-09-26 05:13:18 (GMT)
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Updated doctest doc news.
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@@ -67,12 +67,15 @@ Library
``codecs.StreamReader.readlines()`` have a new argument ``keepends``.
Trailing "\n"s will be stripped from the lines if ``keepends`` is false.
+- The documentation for doctest is greatly expanded, and now covers all
+ the new public features (of which there are many).
+
- ``doctest.master`` was put back in, and ``doctest.testmod()`` once again
updates it. This isn't good, because every ``testmod()`` call
contributes to bloating the "hidden" state of ``doctest.master``, but
some old code apparently relies on it. For now, all we can do is
encourage people to stitch doctests together via doctest's unittest
- integration features instead. It would help if those were documented.
+ integration features instead.
- httplib now handles ipv6 address/port pairs.