[Python-Dev] A sad state of doctests in the python manual (original) (raw)

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 22:48:16 CEST 2010


I have just discovered that sphinx supports running doctests embedded in ReST documentation. It looks like it is as simple as "cd Doc; make doctest". The result, however is not encouraging:

$ make doctest ... Doctest summary

1162 tests 262 failures in tests 0 failures in setup code ...



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