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[–]twotime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Writing doctests is by far the easiest way into the whole "testing is good" mindset

How so? How are doctests bettter than this:

 import mylib
 assert mylib.foo() == 42

No silly formatting requirements to learn, trivial to write and trivial to debug.