[TIP] doctests with either-or outcome

[Michael Foord]

Pete Forman wrote:
> "Rob Kirkpatrick" <robert.d.kirkpatrick at gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > Is there a way of having a doctest pass if it has EITHER output A
>  > or output B? 
>
> What about this approach?
>
>   
>>>> output = get_output()
>>>> output in (output_A, output_B)
>>>>         
> True
>
>   
In my opinion this is one of the problems with the doctest approach. 
Should this fail you get a 'False != True' message that doesn't show you 
what the actual output was.

Michael

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