Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output.

[Luca Cerone]

On Sunday, 22 September 2013 14:39:07 UTC+1, Ned Batchelder  wrote:
> On 9/22/13 12:09 AM, Luca Cerone wrote:
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> > Hi Chris,
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> > actually my priority is to check that the code is correct. I changed the syntax
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> > during the development, and I want to be sure that my tutorial is up to date.
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> >
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> If you do manage to ignore the output, how will you know that the syntax 
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> is correct?  The output for an incorrect syntax line will be an 
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> exception, which you'll ignore.

if the function raises an exception, the test fails, regardless of the output

>  Maybe I don't know enough about the 
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> details of doctest.  It's always seemed incredibly limited to me.  

I agree that has some limitations

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> Essentially, it's as if you used unittest but the only assertion you're 
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> allowed to make is self.assertEqual(str(X), "....")
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I don't know unittest, is it possible to use it within Sphinx?

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> --Ned.