[Python-Dev] Exceptions doctest Re: Request for review (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 19:50:11 CEST 2006

Tim Peters wrote:

Sorry, but it's horridly un-doctest-like to make inferences by magic. If you want to add an explicit ACCEPTEXCEPTIONSUBCLASS doctest option, that's a different story. I would question the need, since I've never got close to needing it, and never heard anyone else bring it up. Is this something that happens to you often enough to be an irritation, or is it just that your brain tells you it's a cool idea? One reason I have to ask is that I'm pretty sure the example you gave is one that never bit you in real life.

You'd be guessing right - and the explanation of how you meant the term makes a lot of sense, too. Consider my crazy idea withdrawn :)

A real limitation I have encountered is that doctest doesn't like the idea of a single statement that triggers normal output followed by an exception (it expects one or the other). However, the case where I wanted that was rather esoteric and easy enough to deal with by using a custom result checker.

Cheers, Nick.

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