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18727	Remove django.test._doctest	Aymeric Augustin	nobody	"We have copied this module from the standard library and submitted the patch to Python's bug tracker six years ago: http://bugs.python.org/issue1521051

Patching our copy to support both Python 2 and 3 increases severely the amount of changes from Python's version. It becomes much harder to apply upstream changes.

Unfortunately the ticket is stuck, because the patch we provided didn't include tests. Even if tests were added and the patch was committed now, we'd have to deprecate all Pythons <= 3.3 before removing our copy and relying on the stdlib. This isn't going to happen in the next five years.

Since Django moved away from using doctests, and as suggested by Russell two years ago in the tickets comments, we should deprecate our copy."	Cleanup/optimization	new	Testing framework	dev	Normal				Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0