Bad: doctests.
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>wrote: > On 14/05/13 16:51, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > [...] > > This sounds like a feature request for doctest. doctest could be educated >> about enums and automatically compare to the integer value for such cases. >> > > Please no. Enums are not special enough to break the rules. > > Good: "Doctests look at the object's repr." > > Bad: "Doctests look at an object's repr, unless the object is an Enum, > when it will look at the enum's value." > > If I want a test that checks the enum's value, then I will write a doctest > that explicitly checks the enum's value. > > > > -- > Steven > > ______________________________**_________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-dev<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev> > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/**mailman/options/python-dev/** > greg%40krypto.org<http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/greg%40krypto.org> >
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