On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 4/16/06, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Personally, my instinct is that having the whole traceback in a
>> doctest is at least as ugly.
You don't need the whole traceback -- e.g.:
"""
If a URL is supplied, it must have an authority (host:port) component.
According to RFC 3986, having an authority component means the URL must
have two slashes after the scheme:
>>> _parse_proxy('file:/ftp.example.com/')
Traceback (most recent call last):
ValueError: proxy URL with no authority: 'file:/ftp.example.com/'
"""
I think the try: ... except FooException: print 'FooException occurred'
style is uglier and less natural than that, but I guess it's not a big
deal.
> Well, it depends on what you use doctest for. If you use it to write
> unit tests, the try/except solution is fine, and perhaps preferable.
[...]
Preferable because depending less on irrelevant details? I had thought
that, apart from the issue with module traceback, IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
made that a non-issue in most cases, but perhaps I missed something
(again).
John
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