I don't know why but it seems that google groups stripped the indentation from the code. I just wanted to ensure you that in the examples that I have run the definition of myfunc contained correctly indented code!
On Monday, 23 September 2013 15:45:43 UTC+1, Luca Cerone wrote: > .. doctest:: example_fake > > > > >>> def myfun(x,verbose): > > ... print "random output" > > ... return x > > >>> myfun(10) > > 10 > > > > When you run make doctest the test fails with this message: > > > > File "tutorial.rst", line 11, in example_fake > > Failed example: > > myfun(10) > > Expected: > > 10 > > Got: > > random output > > 10 > > > > In this case (imagine that "random output" is really random, therefore I can > not easily filter it, if not ignoring several lines. This would be quite easy > if ellipsis and line continuation wouldn't have the same sequence of > characters, but unfortunately this is not the case. > > > > The method you proposed still is not applicable, because I have no way to use > startswith() and endswith()... > > > > The following code could do what I want if I could ignore the output... > > > > >>> def myfun(x,verbose): > > ... print "random output" > > ... return x > > >>> result = myfun(10) #should ignore the output here! > > >>> print result > > 10 > > > > fails with this message: > > > > File "tutorial.rst", line 11, in example_fake > > Failed example: > > result = myfun(10) > > Expected nothing > > Got: > > random output > > > > (line 11 contains: >>> result = myfun(10)) > > > > A SKIP directive is not feasible either: > > > > .. doctest:: example_fake > > > > >>> def myfun(x): > > ... print "random output" > > ... return x > > >>> result = myfun(10) # doctest: +SKIP > > >>> result > > 10 > > > > fails with this error message: > > File "tutorial.rst", line 12, in example_fake > > Failed example: > > result > > Exception raised: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/doctest.py", line 1289, in __run > > compileflags, 1) in test.globs > > File "<doctest example_fake[2]>", line 1, in <module> > > result > > NameError: name 'result' is not defined > > > > As you can see is not that I want something too weird, is just that sometimes > you can't control what the function display and ignoring the output is a > reasonable way to implement a doctest. > > > > Hope these examples helped to understand better what my problem is. > > > > Thanks all of you guys for the hints, suggestions and best practices :) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
