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Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output.

Date 2013-09-22 09:39 -0400
From Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
Subject Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output.
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On 9/22/13 12:09 AM, Luca Cerone wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> actually my priority is to check that the code is correct. I changed the syntax
> during the development, and I want to be sure that my tutorial is up to date.
>

If you do manage to ignore the output, how will you know that the syntax 
is correct?  The output for an incorrect syntax line will be an 
exception, which you'll ignore.  Maybe I don't know enough about the 
details of doctest.  It's always seemed incredibly limited to me.  
Essentially, it's as if you used unittest but the only assertion you're 
allowed to make is self.assertEqual(str(X), "....")

--Ned.

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Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 03:47 -0700
  Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-21 12:27 +0000
    Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 05:44 -0700
      Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-21 15:48 +0000
        Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 09:25 -0700
          Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-22 11:33 +1000
            Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 21:09 -0700
              Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-22 14:25 +1000
              Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-09-22 09:39 -0400
                Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-09-22 07:26 -0700
                Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-23 00:36 +0000
          Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-22 02:38 +0000
            Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 21:15 -0700
              Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-22 12:12 +0000
                Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-09-22 07:24 -0700
                Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-09-23 13:42 +0000
                Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-09-23 07:45 -0700
                Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-09-23 07:51 -0700
                Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-09-23 10:14 -0500
                Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-09-23 16:44 +0000
                Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-09-23 16:53 +0000
                Re: Sphinx Doctest: test the code without comparing the output. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-09-23 11:54 -0700

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