[Python-Dev] Known doctest bug with unicode? (original) (raw)

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai at in-nomine.org
Fri Apr 18 16:27:05 CEST 2008

vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 :

kanamap = { u'あ': 'a' }

def transpose(word): """Convert a word in kana to its equivalent Hepburn romanisation.

>>> transpose(u'あ')
'a'
"""
transposed = ''
for character in word:
    transposed += kanamap[character]
return transposed

if name == 'main': import doctest doctest.testmod()

doctest:

[16:24] [ruigrok at akuma] (1) {20} % python trans.py

File "trans.py", line 11, in main.transpose Failed example: transpose(u'あ') Exception raised: Traceback (most recent call last): File "doctest.py", line 1212, in __run compileflags, 1) in test.globs File "<doctest __main__.transpose[0]>", line 1, in transpose(u'あ') File "trans.py", line 16, in transpose transposed += kanamap[character] KeyError: u'\xe3'

1 items had failures: 1 of 1 in main.transpose Test Failed 1 failures.

normal interpreter:

fromm trans import transpose transpose(u'あ') 'a'

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