[Python-Dev] doctest improvements
Edward Loper
edloper at gradient.cis.upenn.edu
Mon May 31 14:06:12 EDT 2004
About a month and a half ago, I filed several patches for doctest, and
they haven't gotten any comments; so I was wondering if anyone could
look at them.
The most interesting is #933238, which addresses the often-noted problem
that doctest can't handle blank lines. It adds a special blank-line
marker (currently "-"), which must be *dedented* with respect to the
doctest block. Here's an example use (the "x"s are to prevent mail
readers from interpreting ">>>" as a quotation).
x def test_blankline_marker():
x r"""
x Use a dedented "-" to signify a blank line:
x
x >>> print 'First line\n\nThis is after a blank line\n'
x First line
x -
x This is after a blank line
x -
x """
(Note that both internal and trailing blank lines can be handled.)
This change is backwards compatible, since currently any line in a
doctest block that's dedented past the prompt (">>>") is an error.
If anyone has time to take a look at this, let me know what you think.
Thanks.
-Edward
My doctest patches:
[ 933238 ] doctest: add a special (dedented) marker for blank lines
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=933238&group_id=5470&atid=305470
[ 932930 ] doctest: suggest the use of rawstrings for backslashes
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=932930&group_id=5470&atid=305470
[ 932935 ] doctest: allow custom matchers for testing if got==want
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=932935&group_id=5470&atid=305470
[ 932932 ] doctest: Add Tester params to DocTestSuite
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=932932&group_id=5470&atid=305470
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