Joshua D. Boyd

I did go ahead and remove `('.', r'\.')`.

> Why should these operators be escaped at all? Is there a particular reason for them? I'm not the original author, which is why I am hesitant to charge in....

That would be great if someone wanted to write a pull request for it, but it would be a huge change, so I'm not likely to be the one doing...

The idea is to get the existing tests runnable with pytest and travis running it in place before adding to the test load. I saw the previous failure. Python 2.7...

BTW, here is the way to see test coverage: ``` pytest --cov-report term-missing --cov=HowLong ```

@ivernus exactly.

I thought the apt install part was mentioned in the readme, but I just double checked before saying that and I'm wrong. So I guess that will need to be...

Fixes the documentation shortfall mentioned in #85.