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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure if everyone is aware of this, but if you're trying to  
debug a story/pagetest, you can put this anywhere in the doctest:

    >>> stop()

This drops you into a pdb prompt, with stdout properly redirected back  
to the console.

But what's really cool about this is that you can then go to another  
shell and type:

    % make LPCONFIG=testrunner run

and now you'll be able to hit launchpad.dev with the exact state of  
your page test.  This is great if you want to see why a particular  
element that your test expects is missing, or whatever, without having  
to manually reproduce all the state in the test.

There's one small problem though.  This sometimes rebuilds wadl- 
testrunner.xml, which causes a spurious diff you have to manually  
revert.  I'm wondering if there's an easy way to avoid regenerating  
that file?

-Barry

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