[Python-Dev] Known doctest bug with unicode?

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

# vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 :

kanamap = {
    u'あ': 'a'
}

def transpose(word):
    """Convert a word in kana to its equivalent Hepburn romanisation.
    
    >>> transpose(u'あ')
    'a'
    """
    transposed = ''
    for character in word:
        transposed += kanamap[character]
    return transposed

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import doctest
    doctest.testmod()

doctest:

[16:24] [ruigrok at akuma] (1) {20} % python trans.py
**********************************************************************
File "trans.py", line 11, in __main__.transpose
Failed example:
    transpose(u'あ')
Exception raised:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "doctest.py", line 1212, in __run
        compileflags, 1) in test.globs
      File "<doctest __main__.transpose[0]>", line 1, in <module>
        transpose(u'あ')
      File "trans.py", line 16, in transpose
        transposed += kanamap[character]
    KeyError: u'\xe3'
**********************************************************************
1 items had failures:
   1 of   1 in __main__.transpose
***Test Failed*** 1 failures.

normal interpreter:

>>> fromm trans import transpose
>>> transpose(u'あ')
'a'

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