[Python-Dev] Purpose of Doctests [Was: Best practices for Enum] (original) (raw)

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Mon May 20 07:57:43 CEST 2013


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

On May 19, 2013 4:31 PM, "Benjamin Peterson" <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

2013/5/19 Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org>: > Idea: I don't believe anybody has written a fixer for lib2to3 that > applies > fixers to doctests. That'd be an interesting project for someone. 2to3 can operate on doctests, though it doesn't do anything different to them than it does to normal sourcecode. Oh cool. I didn't realize that already existed!

It won't change any output, though, which still means that they tend to break.



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