On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 16:03, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 15:48, Marius Gedminas <mar...@gedmin.as> wrote: >> If you've the discipline to keep the doctests short, I don't see why you >> shouldn't continue writing them instead of unit tests > > Because they are a bitch to debug, relies on details of output, which > makes them brittle, hard to port to Python 3, and can be tricky to set > up with loads of subtle things like inheriting the environment from > where the DocTest was created, etc.
And from __future__ imports doesn't work. And.. I'm sure I'm gonna remember more reason why doctests are bad later, but I can't be bothered really. Just don't use them unless you are writing documentation. PLEASE! -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
