doctest bug with nested triple quotes

[Michele Simionato]

I am getting trouble with nested triple quoted strings in doctest.
For instance

$ cat x.py
"""

dummy = '''

something
here
'''
"""
import doctest; doctest.testmod()

$ python x.py

************************************************** ********************
File "x.py", line 2, in __main__
Failed example:
dummy = '''
Exception raised:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/doctest.py", line 1243, in __run
compileflags, 1) in test.globs
File "<doctest __main__[0]>", line 1
dummy = '''
^
SyntaxError: EOF while scanning triple-quoted string
************************************************** ********************

Is this a know bug? Any workaround? Thanks for comments,
Michele Simionato

[Paolino]

I can't reproduce the error. Freebsd,python 2.4 runs it.

cat x.py """
dummy = '''

something
here
'''
"""
import doctest; doctest.testmod() python x.py

maybe the file is different. python -c "print open('x.py').read().encode('base64')"

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b2N0ZXN0LnRlc3Rtb2QoKQo=

Paolino

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[Peter Otten]

Michele Simionato wrote:

I am getting trouble with nested triple quoted strings in doctest.
For instance

$ cat x.py
"""

dummy = ''' something
here
'''
"""
import doctest; doctest.testmod()

$ python x.py

************************************************** ********************
File "x.py", line 2, in __main__
Failed example:
dummy = '''
Exception raised:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/doctest.py", line 1243, in __run
compileflags, 1) in test.globs
File "<doctest __main__[0]>", line 1
dummy = '''
^
SyntaxError: EOF while scanning triple-quoted string
************************************************** ********************

Is this a know bug? Any workaround? Thanks for comments,

I think it is your bug. All lines but the first must be prefixed with
sys.PS2. Just add some dots to make it work:

'''

dummy = """

.... something
.... here
.... """
'''
import doctest; doctest.testmod()

Peter

[Michele Simionato]

This is my file
$ python -c "print open('x.py').read().encode('base64')"
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OyBkb2N0ZXN0LnRlc3Rtb2QoKQo=

but anyway I think Peter Otten is right, the problem is with the
missing dots.
It makes sense, actually, but for some reason I would never have
thought
of it (I did not expect doctest to be so smart to strip the dots even
inside a string).
Thanks for the feeback and the quick solution,

Michele Simionato