[Python-Dev] Py2.6 ideas (original) (raw)

Edward Loper edloper at gradient.cis.upenn.edu
Sat Mar 17 20:57:40 CET 2007

On Feb 15, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

* Enhance doctest with a method that computes updated doctest results. If the only change I make to a matrix suite is to add commas to long numbers in the matrix repr(), then it would be nice to have an automated way to update the matrix output on all the other test cases in the module.

A while back I wrote up a command-line doctest driver that does this
and more [1]. The output of "doctest_driver.py --help" is below;
note in particular the --update and --debug options. I also wrote an
emacs mode [2] that has support for running doctest & putting the
output (^c^c) or diffs (^c^d) in an output buffer; and for updating
the output of selected examples (^c^r). I never really got around to
doing official releases for either (although doctest-mode.el is part
of the python-mode.el package).

I could move some of this code into the doctest mode, if it seems
appropriate; or I could just go ahead and release the driver and
publicize it.

-Edward

[1] http://nltk.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nltk/trunk/nltk/nltk_lite/ test/doctest_driver.py?view=markup

[2] http://python-mode.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/checkout/python- mode/trunk/python-mode/doctest-mode.el?revision=424

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