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Re: annoying doctest problem

From Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
Subject Re: annoying doctest problem
Date 2015-01-12 10:47 -0500
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On 1/11/15 11:20 PM, gordianknot1981@gmail.com wrote:
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> It failed with an unknown reason that evaluate two expected equal value but got an unexpected result! I'm struggling with this problem for a long time. Did I did something wrong? And how do I to fix it?
>
> any help is appreciated. :)
>

My recommendation is to use doctest to test the code samples that 
naturally occur in your docstrings, but not to use it as a 
general-purpose testing tool.  It has too many limitations and quirks, 
and if you're going to write separate test methods anyway, why not just 
write actual code?

More detail here: 
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200811/things_i_dont_like_about_doctest.html


-- 
Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com

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annoying doctest problem gordianknot1981@gmail.com - 2015-01-11 20:20 -0800
  Re: annoying doctest problem gordianknot1981@gmail.com - 2015-01-11 20:30 -0800
  Re: annoying doctest problem Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-12 05:24 +0000
    Re: annoying doctest problem Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-01-12 06:15 -0600
      Re: annoying doctest problem Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-13 00:00 +1100
        Re: annoying doctest problem Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-12 14:59 +0000
          Re: annoying doctest problem Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-13 02:58 +1100
            Re: annoying doctest problem Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-12 16:46 +0000
        Re: annoying doctest problem Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-01-12 12:15 -0600
    Re: annoying doctest problem Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-01-12 06:32 -0600
  Re: annoying doctest problem Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-01-12 10:47 -0500
    Re: annoying doctest problem gordianknot1981@gmail.com - 2015-01-12 10:34 -0800

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