-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/19/2013 12:14 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Raymond Hettinger < > raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On May 14, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> >> wrote: >> >> Bad: doctests. >> >> >> I'm hoping that core developers don't get caught-up in the "doctests >> are bad meme". >> > > Don't doctests intended for CPython not work on Jython, Pypy, > IronPython... > > I've been avoiding them for this reason.
"Naive" doctests depend a lot on repr, and hence tend to break even between minor releases of CPython. Folks who use a lot of them apply a great deal of elbow grease to working around that problem, e.g. through "renoormalizing" the output: https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.testing/blob/master/src/zope/testing/renormalizing.txt Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlGZM1YACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6zRACgx266WAzy1RDX0vOm7fThXzi5 zX4AoNyZFGBOML2XR4ZOecXwzG6XaHW+ =yGon -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
