[Grok-dev] Easier test setup with new grok.testing

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Wed Jan 30 07:15:00 EST 2008


Uli Fouquet wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>> I'm assuming something just as simple will work for normal python tests
>> instead of doctests?
> 
> Not with the current implementation, which only supports doctests. But
> it should be not too difficult to do the same for normal python tests.
> Is there demand for such an extension?

There is from me at least. In my personal opinion doctests make for hard to 
read documentation and hard to debug tests, so I avoid them as much as possible.

Wichert.

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