On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward at gmail.com> > wrote: > > I just thought of something: isn't the obvious solution is for doctest > to > > test the type of an expression's output and if it's in the set of > unordered > > types {set, dict} to run sort() on it? Then the docstring author can > just > > put the (sorted) output of what's expected.... >> What if the output is a list of dicts? Right, thanks. Although I suppose in theory one could go deep -- take the deepcopy code and instead of an exact copy replace any unordered types with their sorted copies. mark. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/attachments/20120301/c5ab2aa0/attachment.html>