Problem with mixing doctest with gettext _()

[Pierre Rouleau]

Skip Montanaro wrote:


> 
> If you really want a dummy _() you can also stuff your version into
> builtins:
> 
>     >>> import __builtin__
>     >>> def foo(s): return s
>     ... 
>     >>> __builtin__._ = foo
>     >>> _
>     <function foo at 0x1d6670>
>     >>> _("hi")
>     'hi'
> 

I tried that, but it only works for the first call...

[Shell buffer started: python.exe]
Python 2.3.3 (#51, Dec 18 2003, 20:22:39) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on 
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import __builtin__
 >>> def foo(s): return s
...
 >>> __builtin__._ = foo
 >>> _
<function foo at 0x008F98B0>
 >>> _
<function foo at 0x008F98B0>
 >>> _('hi')
'hi'
 >>> _
'hi'
 >>> _('Hello')
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
 >>>


Pierre