Testing in Python using doctest

[ Thanks to Naheed for this link. ]

"Coding a test harness for doctest: The doctest module supports creating objects, invoking methods, and checking results. With this recipe, we will explore this in more detail.

"An important aspect of doctest is that it finds individual instances of docstrings, and runs them in a local context. Variables declared in one docstring cannot be used in another docstring."

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