[Python-ideas] Fwd: doctest

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon Feb 27 22:35:37 CET 2012


Mark Janssen <dreamingforward at gmail.com>
writes:

> The key difference, to me, is in that doctest promotes tests being
> written in order to have the *additional functionality* of
> documentation.

I think that doctest promotes docstrings being written with the
additional functionality of tests. To that extent, it is very good.

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Ben Finney




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