doctest's ELLIPSIS

[Sébastien Boisgérault]

Hi,

Can anybody come up with a sensible argument that would explain
why the following test should fail ? (Expected: nothing, Got: 42).

cheers,

S.B.

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import doctest

def test():
"""

print 42 #doctest: +ELLIPSIS

...
"""

def run():
"Run the test."
doctest.testmod()

if __name__ == '__main__':
run()

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[Michele Simionato]

I think doctest believes the line starting with ... is
a continuation line in a multiline statement.

[Sébastien Boisgérault]

Doh ! Obviously ... too bad.

I guess that I could set doctest.ELLIPSIS_MARKER to "[...]" to
distinguish
the two usages of "...". (The "..." used for multiline statements is
hard-coded
into a regular expression pattern).

But it feels too hackish, ELLIPSIS_MATKER being not described in the
docs ...

Well, anyway, thanks for your insight.

S.B.

[Michele Simionato]

I would file a bug report/documentation bug/feature
request or whatever to sourceforge.

Michele Simionato

[Sébastien Boisgérault]

Done.

[Sébastien Boisgérault]

(Forwarded from Python bug tracker)

[ 1192554 ] doctest's ELLIPSIS and multiline statements

Tim Peters:
[...]
doctest has few syntax requirements, but the
inability to start an expected output block with "..." has
always been one of them, and is independent of the
ELLIPSIS gimmick. I doubt this will change, in part because
the complications needed to "do something about it" are
probably pig ugly, in part because it's so rare a desire, and
in part because there are easy ways to work around it (like
arranging for the expected output to start with something
other than '...').