> The issue shows (yet again) a general problem with doctests being > overspecified -- the test shouldn't care that the output starts with > 'u', it should only care that the value is unicode, but there's no > easy way to express this in doctests. But since these doctests exist I > suggest that the practical way forward is to stick with them rather > than trying to reformulate all the tests.
Ok, I think I would prefer that. One approach I considered was to override sys.displayhook, so that I can determine what parts of the output are "single" repr results. Of course, this wouldn't catch repr strings that were ultimately print()ed (not sure whether that restriction would affect Django). The other (more aggressive) approach is the heuristics you propose, which may end up with false negatives. doctest already has a wildcard matching flag, so it would grow another one. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
