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

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 21:32:58 CET 2009


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 21:24, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> 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.

Should I start a bug report in the tracker for this?

The diff in the code is:

             # Another chance if they didn't care about the detail.
             elif self.optionflags & IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL:

But obviously I have patches for both py3k and trunk with tests and updated documentation as well. As you see the diff is pretty simple, it's just a more complex regex.

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