Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
I have no problem with pinging Python-Dev, or any other forum, asking for interested parties. I just don't think we should be intentionally spliting the discussion more than it's going to get split organically. (If this is interesting to people, they will discuss it on other forums no matter what we say or do.) Aside from the conservative position "If it ain't broke, don't break it", also known as "Chesterton's Fence": https://matt-rickard.com/chestertons-fence/ I'm not specifically opposed to this change. Nor am I in favour. Why do we print the first line of the doctests in the output of failing tests? If we understood the rationale for why we do that, it might give some insight into the consequences of removing it. If we don't know why it was shown in the first place, maybe we shouldn't remove it until we have some idea. I am -1 on another option flag unless there is no other choice. Each boolean flag option doubles the number of tests of unitttest itself needed for full coverage. Another option might be to leave the docstring line alone, and just *add* the 'ERROR' to the method name line: # current output test_broken_doc (mathlib.testing.test_utils.TestMinmax) This is a docstring ... ERROR # enhancement test_broken_doc (mathlib.testing.test_utils.TestMinmax) ERROR This is a docstring ... ERROR That seems to me to be less risky than trying to cram them all on one line. test_broken_doc (mathlib.testing.test_utils.TestMinmax) This is a docstring ... ERROR By the way, I presume we do the same thing for FAIL lines, which have the same behaviour as ERROR lines: test_fail_doc (mathlib.testing.test_utils.TestMinmax) This is a docstring ... FAIL test_fail_nodoc (mathlib.testing.test_utils.TestMinmax) ... FAIL ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue47133> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
