In Base it's done (in the function's docstring) with fenced code blocks with jldoctest language:
```jldoctest julia> code goes here output here ``` I don't think there's support yet outside on Base, but it's on at least one roadmap (coming soon). On Saturday, 2 January 2016 02:48:23 UTC-8, John Travers wrote: > > Has the situation changed at all with all of the new documentation options > last year? > I would find a good equivalent of Python's doctests extremely useful in my > code, and I guess it could make use of the documentation strings > functionality in 0.4? > > On Saturday, June 28, 2014 at 3:51:55 PM UTC+2, Ivar Nesje wrote: >> >> There is something in JuliaDoc >> https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaDoc/blob/master/juliadoc/jldoctest.py. >> It think it was intended to be used to ensure that the manual was kept up >> to date when we changed how things was printed. >> >> Ivar >> >> kl. 12:46:18 UTC+2 lørdag 28. juni 2014 skrev Magnus Lie Hetland følgende: >>> >>> Is there anything similar to Python's doctest ( >>> https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html) for Julia? (Couldn't >>> find anything…) Probably not to hard to hack together for myself, but if >>> it's out there, I'd rather not reinvent the wheel :-} >>> >>
