It appears that doctest does not work straightforwardly within iPython.
I would like to be able to use doctest within a file conditionally, so
that I can develop it within ipython and test it otherwise.
It would seem that this would work:
Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 31 2005, 00:05:10)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import testme
>>> testme._test()
>>>
but it doesn't (the test above fails, but reports nothing)
I am finding the documentation for doctest ironically impenetrable and
**would** be interested in adding some examples and explanatory text to
it, but I need to understand what is going on rather better than I do.
Meanwhile I am settling for this:
# testme.py
def foo():
"""
Should return 42
>>> foo()
42
"""
return 43
def _test():
import doctest
doctest.testmod()
if __name__ == "__main__":
try:
__IP # check if we are in iPython
except:
_test()
print "ok"
####
Then
In [4]:!python testme.py
works (reports the error) just fine! So I don't even have to bail out
of iPython to run the tests.
mt
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