Doctest failing

Tigerstyle laddosingh at gmail.com
Sun Sep 11 12:39:12 EDT 2011


On 10 Sep, 13:50, Thomas Jollans <t... at jollybox.de> wrote:
> On 10/09/11 13:20, Tigerstyle wrote:
>
> > Hi guys.
>
> > I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me
> > out here.
>
> > All tests are failing even though I am getting the correct output on
> > the first two tests. And the last test still gives me "Of" instead of
> > "of"
>
> Cannot reproduce. I only get the one, expected, failure.
>
> % python -m doctest books.py
> **********************************************************************
> File "books.py", line 12, in books.book_title
> Failed example:
>     book_title('the WORKS OF AleXANDer dumas')
> Expected:
>     'The Works of Alexander Dumas'
> Got:
>     'The Works Of Alexander Dumas'
> **********************************************************************
> 1 items had failures:
>    1 of   3 in books.book_title
> ***Test Failed*** 1 failures.
>
>
>
> > def _test():
> >     import doctest, refactory
> >     return doctest.testmod(refactory)
> > if __name__ == "__main__":
> >     _test()
>
> What is this "refactory"? Are you testing the right code? What is the
> output of your test - does it make sense for the module?
>
> Thomas

Still struggling with my test failing. All 3 tests fail. I'm using
Ecplipse and I think Eclipse is what causing this.



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