[Python-Dev] Unittest/doctest formatting differences in 2.7a1? (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 11:29:41 CET 2009

Benjamin Peterson wrote:

2009/12/10 Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com>:

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 20:25, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

Since the intent of IGNOREEXCEPTIONDETAIL is to make doctests immune to implementation version specific changes, it seems to me that extending its technical meaning is required to carry out its intent. Would this be considered bugfixy enough to get into 3.1-branch as well as 2.7? It really is damn annoying when you try to port doctests to Python 3, and it would be great if we wouldn't have to wait for 3.2. I think a patch would be helpful before deciding that.

Agreed that a patch is needed before deciding, but I support the idea that this be classed as a bug in IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL - the presence or absence of module information in the printout of the Exception name shouldn't make the test fail.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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