On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Minh Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:24 AM, John H Palmieri <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>>
>> Ticket #6439 suggests that if code has
>>
>>   Sage: ...
>>
>> in an EXAMPLES block, then it should be flagged as an error, because
>> presumably the author intended it to say
>>
>>   sage: ...
>>
>> and with "Sage: ..." the example isn't actually doctested.
>
> When writing doctests, do people actually type in "sage:", "Sage:",
> "SAGE:" or other variations rather than copying it from the Sage
> command line? I would usually load the command line, type in the
> doctesting code, and copy the input and output into the relevant
> docstring. This is a simple use case, but any typo input at the
> command line would result in Sage complaining. I find that a good way
> to catch typos early before submiting patches.
>

I use the notebook to make a little session, then click on "Text" in
the upper right, which in most cases formats the output to make it
suitable for doctesting.

 -- William

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