The new doctesting framework allows doctests with continuation to be
written like
sage:
....:
....:
instead of the old
sage:
...
...
The new syntax is much better because it has correct alignment and it
would allow expected output to start with ... if we disallow the old
syntax. It is also the syntax that one sees in the IPython command line.
The problem is that people will keep adding doctests in the old style.
So I am thinking about ways to help the transition of ... to ....:
The following is an idea I am inclined to try:
Automatically replace replace ... to ....: in newly added/changed
doctests? This can be done with some sed magic when merging the patch.
And moreover, it could even be done in a way to avoid merge conflicts
(if patch A adds a ... doctest and patch B changes that ... doctest, I
can handle that). The main disadvantage here is that patches on Trac
will not match the actually merged patches. I am even thinking about
having 2 branches in the Mercurial repository, one with the patches as
on Trac and one with the doctests changed (the latter one being the
"official" master branch).
Any ideas?
Jeroen.
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