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hathawsh on May 27, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-ba...

That concept has been formalized as part of the Python standard library.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html

flakes on May 27, 2025 [–]

Ah very nice! Did not realize this was a part of the standard library!

lmz on May 28, 2025 | [–]

It's been there since Python v2.1 https://docs.python.org/release/2.1/lib/module-doctest.html

sakesun on May 28, 2025 | | [–]

Here is the first announce of doctest I can find (1999) I think it's Python 1.5 time.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.python/c/DfzH5Nrt05E/m...

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