[IPython-dev] [Pytables-users] Failing tests with 2.0rc1

[Fernando Perez]

On 4/26/07, Francesc Altet <faltet at carabos.com> wrote:
> El dj 26 de 04 del 2007 a les 09:28 -0600, en/na Brian Granger va
> escriure:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Also forwarding this to ipython-dev.
> >
> > I reran the pytables test suite under regular python (not IPython) and
> > all tests pass!
> >
> > For the IPython devs, the issue is that the pytables tests suite
> > (which uses doctest) fails under ipython, but passes under regular
> > python.
>
> To be more specific, PyTables uses mainly the unittest module for the
> test suite, but with some excerpts of 'doctests' sparsed in the middle,
> and these are the ones that are creating the problems.
>
> > I think Robert Kern's thoughts about what is going on is probably correct:
> >
> > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-April/377902.html
> >
> > I will bring this up at the ipython sprint this weekend.

Yup, I've been aware of this problem for a while now.  We'll think
about a clean solution...

Cheers,

f