doctests for interactive functions

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-02-08, Brian van den Broek <broek at cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
> All classes take an optional argument input_function that
> determines how the class instance gets its input. If this is
> not provided, it defaults to raw_input. doctest tests reassign
> it so that they can be run automatically.

What I've done in these cases is create a file containing my test
input, and before running the doctests I remap sys.stdin to my
file of test data. Then you don't need test code cluttering up
your functions.

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