[Python-Dev] doctest and pickle (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Jun 7 19:53:14 CEST 2013

On 06/07/2013 09:54 AM, Olemis Lang wrote:

On 6/7/13, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

Is there a doctest mailing list? I couldn't find it.

JFTR, Testing-in-Python (TiP) ML should be the right target for general purpose questions about testing, considering docs even for unittest and doctest http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python

Cool, thanks.

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Any advice on how to make it work?

Here's the excerpt: =============================================================================== Pickling -------- Enumerations can be pickled and unpickled:: >>> from enum import Enum >>> class Fruit(Enum): ... tomato = 1 ... banana = 2 ... cherry = 3 ... >>> from pickle import dumps, loads >>> Fruit.tomato is loads(dumps(Fruit.tomato)) True ... but it seems I'm still getting in tests an instance of Fruit after invoking loads (do you ?)

I'm not sure what you mean by "an instance of Fruit" -- you should be getting an instance of Fruit; specifically the tomato instance.

-- Ethan

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