- Improvements to interactive debugging support:
- Changed the replacement pdb.set_trace to redirect stdout to the
real stdout *only* during interactive debugging; stdout from code
continues to go to the fake stdout.
- When the interactive debugger gets to the end of an example,
automatically continue.
- Use a replacement linecache.getlines that will return source lines
from doctest examples; this makes the source available to the
debugger for interactive debugging.
- In test_doctest, use a specialized _FakeOutput class instead of a
temporary file to fake stdin for the interactive interpreter.
and intervening text strings.
- Removed DocTestParser.get_program(): use script_from_examples()
instead.
- Fixed bug in DocTestParser._INDENT_RE
- Fixed bug in DocTestParser._min_indent
- Moved _want_comment() to the utility function section
actual output into lines created spurious empty lines at the ends of
each. Those matched, but the fancy diffs had surprising line counts (1
larger than expected), and tests kept having to slam <BLANKLINE> into the
expected output to account for this. Using the splitlines() string method
with keepends=True instead accomplishes what was intended directly.
While a fancy diff can be confusing in the presence of ellipses, so far
I'm finding (2-0-0) that it's much more a major aid in narrowing down the
possibilities when an ellipsis-slinging test fails. So we no longer
refuse to do a fancy diff just because of ellipses.
This isn't ideal; it's just better.
rather than an expected output string. This gives the
output_difference method access to more information, such as the
indentation of the example, which might be useful.
NDIFF_DIFF->REPORT_NDIFF. This establishes the naming convention that
all reporting options should begin with "REPORT_" (since reporting
options are a different class from output comparison options; but they
are both set in optionflags).
to be more consistent with report_failure()
- If `want` or `got` is empty, then print "Expected nothing\n" or
"Got nothing\n" rather than "Expected:\n" or "Got:\n"
- Got rid of _tag_msg
exception message, or None if no exception is expected); and moved
exception parsing from DocTestRunner to DocTestParser. This is
architecturally cleaner, since it moves all parsing work to
DocTestParser; and it should make it easier for code outside
DocTestRunner (notably debugging code) to properly handle expected
exceptions.
a traceback message. I.e., examples that raise exceptions may no
longer generate pre-exception output. This restores the behavior of
doctest in python 2.3. The ability to check pre-exception output is
being removed because it makes the documentation simpler; and because
there are very few use cases for it.
NamedTemporaryFile (which can't work for this function's purposes on
Windows). Leaving temp files behind wasn't a great idea either, though,
so try to clean up. At least the test suite no longer leaves any of
these guys behind now.
docstrings toward being a lot shorter, and telling the whole truth in
the manual instead. This change is an example: the manual has detailed
explanations of the option names now, so it's Bad to repeat them in
the docstring (two detailed descriptions are certain to get out of synch).
Just listing the names has memory-jogging benefits, though, so that's
still helpful in the docstring.
- Test filenames sometimes had trailing .pyc or .pyo sufixes
(when module __file__ did).
- Trailing spaces spaces in expected output were dropped.
New default failure format:
- Separation of examples from file info makes examples easier to see
- More vertical separation, improving readability
- Emacs-recognized file info (also closer to Python exception format)
are non-obvious either way because the newline character "is invisible",
but it's still there all the same, and it's easier to explain/predict
if that reality is left alone.
It's redundant, since no output is written anyway: DebugRunner doesn't
generate any output for failures and unexpected exceptions, and since
verbose=False, it won't generate any output for non-failures either.
appeared at the end of a line. Repaired that. Also noted that it's
too easy to provoke this implementation into requiring exponential
time, and especially when a test fails. I'll replace the implementation
with an always-efficient one later.
them (which they are now), I had to rewrite the code to understand
it. This has got to be the most DWIM part of doctest -- but in context
is really necessary.
visually distinguish the expected output from the comments (use
"##" to mark expected outputs, and "#" to mark comments).
- If the string given to DocTestParser.get_program() is indented, then
strip its indentation. (In particular, find the min indentation of
non-blank lines, and strip that indentation from all lines.)
- Added comments for some regexps
- If the traceback type/message don't match, then still print full
traceback in report_failure (not just the first & last lines)
- Renamed DocTestRunner.__failure_header -> _failure_header
modify option flags for a single example; they do not turn options
on or off.)
- Added "indent" and "options" attributes for Example
- Got rid of add_newlines param to DocTestParser._parse_example (it's
no longer needed; Example's constructor now takes care of it).
- Added some docstrings
responsible for parsing the string.
- Renamed Parser to DocTestParser
- DocTestParser.get_*() now accept the string & name as command-line
arguments; the parser's constructor is now empty.
- Added DocTestParser.get_doctest() method
- Replaced "doctest_factory" argument to DocTestFinder with a "parser"
argument (takes a DocTestParser).
- Changed _tag_msg to take an indentation string argument.
the set_trace fiddling didn't make sense to me, and I ended up reworking
that part of the code. We really do want to save and restore
pdb.set_trace, so that each dynamically nested level of doctest gets
sys.stdout fiddled to what's appropriate for *it*. The only "trick"
really needed is that these layers of set_trace wrappers each call the
original pdb.set_trace (instead of the current pdb.set_trace).
Tim Peters
Jim Fulton
Edward Loper