Hi Michael, On 2012-05-02, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > You can usually call the underscore methods directly.
I thought (i.e.: I am sure that I was repeatedly told) that calling magical methods in a doctest is strongly discouraged. The reason is that one purpose of doctests is educational. As a reviewer, I would not hesitate to ask for changing such an overly explicit test, when the doctest fails to show how the method is really supposed to be used. Of course, `_repr_` and friends is not supposed to be called directly - hence the indirect test. Cheers, Simon -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
