[Python-ideas] doctest

[Mike Graham]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com> wrote:
>    This is totally fine
>        >>> {-1:1, -2:1} # doctest: +LITERAL_EVAL
>        {-1:1, -2:1}

Doing an ast.literal_eval seems like a great feature (and maybe even a
sensible default after a string comparison fails). Having a real eval
as an explicit doctest option would also make doctest more powerful.

Mike