On Aug 8, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> I've been advocating the use of doctests in routes.py to debug problems.
> Here's another doctest you can use (I'll send a patch to Massimo that adds an
> example).
>
>>>> compile_re('.*http://otherdomain.com.* (?P<any>.*)',
>>>> '/app/ctr\g<any>')[0].pattern
> '^.*http://otherdomain.com.* (?P<any>.*)$'
>>>> compile_re('.*http://otherdomain.com.* (?P<any>.*)', '/app/ctr\g<any>')[1]
> '/app/ctr\\\\g<any>'
>>>> compile_re('/$c/$f', '/init/$c/$f')[0].pattern
> '^.*?:https?://[^:/]+:[a-z]+ /(?P<c>[\\\\w_]+)/(?P<f>[\\\\w_]+)$'
>>>> compile_re('/$c/$f', '/init/$c/$f')[1]
> '/init/\\\\g<c>/\\\\g<f>'
>
> For the trunk version, the import line needs to change to this:
>
> from gluon.rewrite import select, load, filter_url, filter_out,
> filter_err, compile_re
>
> Notice that the backslash escaping gets a little confusing. I can't figure
> out how to use raw strings properly here; so it goes.
One more note. All the other doctests in routes.example.py use the patterns
defined earlier in the file. The compile_re tests are entirely self-contained,
so you can easily add them without any other editing. Just copy
routes.example.py to, say, routes.test.py, and add some compile_re tests, and
you're in business.
