On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 15:48, Marius Gedminas <[email protected]> wrote: > If you've the discipline to keep the doctests short, I don't see why you > shouldn't continue writing them instead of unit tests
Because they are a bitch to debug, relies on details of output, which makes them brittle, hard to port to Python 3, and can be tricky to set up with loads of subtle things like inheriting the environment from where the DocTest was created, etc. DocTests are for testing documentation, not documenting tests. Sorry guys, all other usage of doctests than making documentation testable is evil. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
