[Python-Dev] Doctest and Footnotes (original) (raw)

Benji York benji at benjiyork.com
Tue Jul 11 13:33:10 CEST 2006

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

It would be nice if tracebacks in the footnote show the invoking context

Yep. Someone (Jim Fulton I think) had suggested that to me. I'll look into it.

My other thought would be that having a patch that works against the 2.5 version of doctest would be good

My intent is to update zope.testing to the 2.5 version of doctest and generate a new patch against that.

It would be even better if there were a stand-alone release of doctest instead, or (another Jim suggestion) if doctest were made extensible. I have another doctest/ReST idea I'd like to try some time (using ReST tables for FIT), so if there's interest perhaps I'll try my hand at a plugin system of some sort. (wish I could use zope.component :)

Benji York