Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> added the comment: Hmm, I don't think tests will fail, however, there are cryptic docs for this...
http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html#basic-api I don't really get what module_relative is about and I've always run into the non- cross-platform issue above when passing an absolute path to DocFileSuite while forgetting to specify module_relative=False. The weird/frustrating thing is that the tests behave *just fine* on Windows with module_relative being the default of True and the absolute path being specified, so I'm not really sure what difference either the module_relative option or the check that the path doesn't start with a / mean... The problem is that while the docs specify that paths must be /-separated, nothing in the code enforces this. So, with module_relative as True, the default: - If you generate and pass an absolute path on Windows, it'll work just fine. - If you pass a '\\'-separated module-relative path, this will work just fine. (You'll end up with base/dir\path\you\supplied, but I doubt `open` will care about that. With module_relative set to False, I'm not really sure what happens... Anyone? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6703> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
