Slow tests

[Harald Meland]

[Martin Pool]

> 2009/9/18 Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>:
>> Its handling of comments and docstrings that probably drove Martin's use
>> of the AST. If we're not actually using the word assert anywhere, then
>> I'd just be as simple [and fast:)] as possible.
>
> Yes, I used the AST so that it would be more correct, but this is an
> unreasonably high price to pay for it.  I think using a regexp is
> fine, and if that means that we can't have the word 'assert' at the
> start of a line in a docstring we'll live with it.

The point I'm trying to make is that we can do both.

I've proposed a merge of my current branch now; we can get back to the
even faster (but less obviously correct) version if the test still is
too slow after that.
-- 
Harald