[Python-3000] doctest portability

[Georg Brandl]

Stefan Behnel schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I currently use a bunch of work-arounds for doctests in lxml's test suite to
> make them work in Py3. I converted most tests to a mix of Py2 and Py3 syntax
> (e.g. using both u'' and b'' literals), and most of the runtime work is done
> using regular expressions that convert the except-as syntax, strip package
> names from tracebacks and translate bytes/str output between Py2 and Py3
> syntax/repr.
> 
> I know, I could use the lib2to3 package, but it a) is a one-way tool in the
> wrong direction if you have to distinguish bytes/str literals, b) lacks
> configurability stating exactly what changes need to be done and c) seemed
> harder to set up for doctests than doing the conversion by hand.

Shouldn't the -d option handle doctests without further set-up?

Georg


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