Re: Python 2.7 and the ZTK - three test failures
Martijn Faassen <[email protected]>
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On 07/06/2010 01:27 PM, Charlie Clark wrote: > Am 06.07.2010, 13:12 Uhr, schrieb Martijn Faassen<[email protected]>: > >> What do you mean, a doctest embedded within another? I'm probably >> missing something. > > No, it's probably me getting the explicit doctest call wrong. It looks to > my novice eyes like print statement is being passed to a "doctest" method. > In matters like these it's usually safe to assume I'm wrong! :-) No, that comment (if you mean that?) is just a way to send configuration parameters to the doctest engine. It calls the view. > hm, I don't think that can be argued with really, particularly given the > amount of time I've actually studied this and other documents over reading > the code. But I do think that, whether the module runs as specified, and > whether the documentation is up to snuff, are of a different nature and, > consequently, so are their failures. Shouldn't we be testing documentation > differently? I think a failure in documentation should ideally show up when running the tests. I do agree that documentation and tests have different concerns and that mixing them can (but does not necessarily have to) lead to poor documentation. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ 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 )