On Mon, 20 May 2013 15:57:35 +0200, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2013 09:37:32 -0400
> "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 May 2013 12:45:57 +0200, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>
> > wrote:
> > > On Sat, 18 May 2013 23:41:59 -0700
> > > Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > We should continue to encourage users to make thorough unit tests
> > > > and to leave doctests for documentation. That said, it should be
> > > > recognized that some testing is better than no testing. And doctests
> > > > may be attractive in that regard because it is almost effortless to
> > > > cut-and-paste a snippet from the interactive prompt. That isn't a
> > > > best practice, but it isn't a worst practice either.
> > >
> > > There are other reasons to hate doctest, such as the obnoxious
> > > error reporting. Having to wade through ten pages of output to find
> > > what went wrong is no fun.
> >
> > That's why I added the 'failfast' option to doctest.
>
> I didn't know that. Is it propagated by regrtest? I never use doctest
> standalone.
I don't think so. That's a good idea, though.
> > > Also the difficulty of editing them. For some reason, my editor doesn't
> > > offer me facilities to edit interactive prompt session snippets.
> >
> > I don't have much problem with lacking tailored facilities for this
> > in vim. I suppose that is a matter of personal style. I *would* like to
> > teach it the proper indentation, but I haven't been bothered enough yet
> > to do it. (After all, weren't you the one who told me the lack of tab
> > key indentation at the interactive prompt after you enabled completion
> > by default wasn't an issue because one could just use space to indent? :)
>
> An interpreter prompt session is throwaway, so you can pretty much
> indent as you like (which may not be very pretty in a tests file).
> Besides, I was thinking about the prompts ('>>> ' and '... '), not the
> indentation itself.
True. I don't find typing >>> or ... very burdensome, though. Less
even than fixing the alignment after hitting tab :)
--David
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