trying to remember how to do inline code "testing"

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Wed Oct 24 06:46:57 EDT 2007


Alex Hunsley wrote:

> I can remember Python having a feature which allowed you to add some
> simple tests to your code, something like adding console output to your
> actual python script, like so:
> 
> 
>  >>> 1+1
> 2
>  >>> 2*7
> 14
> 
> 
> ... then python would actually run these queries and check that the
> expected results occurred.
> I can't find the docs for this feauture anywhere, but I'm certain I
> didn't imagine this one!
> Can anyone give me a reference?

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-doctest.html

Diez



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