Hi, I currently use a bunch of work-arounds for doctests in lxml's test suite to make them work in Py3. I converted most tests to a mix of Py2 and Py3 syntax (e.g. using both u'' and b'' literals), and most of the runtime work is done using regular expressions that convert the except-as syntax, strip package names from tracebacks and translate bytes/str output between Py2 and Py3 syntax/repr.
I know, I could use the lib2to3 package, but it a) is a one-way tool in the wrong direction if you have to distinguish bytes/str literals, b) lacks configurability stating exactly what changes need to be done and c) seemed harder to set up for doctests than doing the conversion by hand. It would be really nice if the doctest module had a simple option that specified if the doctests of a test suite are in Py2 or Py3 syntax, and then just did the right thing under Py3 (and maybe also 2.6). Otherwise, a lot more people than just myself will have a hard time getting their test suites to run in Py3, which is basically the only way to sanely migrate code. Stefan _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
