[melbourne-pug] doctest: can you distinguish between a test & a variable setting?

[Lars Yencken]

Hi Mohamed,

2009/3/26 Mohamed Barwani <minnov at gmail.com>

> def returnme(x):
>    """
>    Returns what you pass
>
>    >>> y = (2, 3, 5, 7)
>    >>> returnme(y)
>    (2, 3, 5, 7)
>    """
>    return x
>
> In the above snippet, there is only one test and the other is just a
> variable assignment, however, this is what gets reported..
>
> Trying:
>    y = (2, 3, 5, 7)
> Expecting nothing
> ok
> Trying:
>    returnme(y)
> Expecting:
>    (2, 3, 5, 7)
> ok
> <snip>
> 2 tests in 2 items.
> 2 passed and 0 failed.


This is what you get when you run

doctest.testmod(verbose=True)

You can also instead use:

suite = doctest.DocTestSuite()
unittest.TextTestRunner().run(suite)

when you do this, you'll find only one test was registered by your example.

.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.006s

OK

You're getting the extra stuff printed out just because you're asking
doctest to think out aloud with the verbose flag. Try using unittest to run
the tests instead.

Cheers,
Lars
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