Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpic...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> They support _more than one_ set of PS1/PS2 conventions. I saw this, not sure if that's required. IMHO, same effect should be possible by running doctest several times with different conventions. > Who would it help? In principle, any project, that uses some custom shell (i.e. IPython) per default. I believe, "easily understood tests" should start with prompts that users could easily recognise. > Something that might change my mind: find an author of a widely used > alternative Python shell who says this change would allow them to _remove_ > their own doctest-PS1/PS2 customization code. That would be a real use case. I admit, exactly this use case I can't provide right now. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32832> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
