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Author brett.cannon
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, brett.cannon
Date 2008-01-29.20:52:24
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In-reply-to <1201638265.02.0.358218374589.issue1935@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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On Jan 29, 2008 12:24 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment:
>
> Did he misunderstand the last comment in this post of yours?
> http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-psf/issues/detail?id=291#c24

Ah, I see what you mean.

So docstrings are not used in testing methods because unittest outputs
those as the name of the test and they are not always useful. The
convention is to make them comments instead and let the method test
name be what unittest outputs.
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