place the doctest for inner function in the docstring for
innerfunction. now its called before the functions is defined...

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Dan<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'd like to create some tests for functions that exist within a
> controller using web2py's (very convenient) doctest integration. Is
> this possible?
>
> For example, here is a controller with a subfunction and one test
> defined for the controller and another defined for the function within
> the controller:
>
> ---
> def my_controller():
>    """
>    here are some doctests:
>
>    >>> my_controller()
>    35
>
>    >>> inner_function(1,2)
>    3
>
>    """
>
>    def inner_function(a,b):
>        return a + b
>
>    return 5 * inner_function(3,4)
> ---
> and when running tests, I get one error (edited for brevity):
>
> Line 7, ... in my_controller.__doc__
> Failed example:
>    inner_function(1,2)
> Exception raised:
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.5/doctest.py", line 1228, in __run
>        compileflags, 1) in test.globs
>      File "... in my_controller.__doc__[1]>", line 1, in <module>
>    NameError: name 'inner_function' is not defined
>
> >
>

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