New submission from Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Running a doctest with Py2 syntax in Py3 currently involves either running the 2to3 tool by hand or writing code to convert the doctest using lib2to3, and then running the modified version. This basically pushes the burden of automating this step in any test runner script in the world onto the authors or users of these scripts.
Writing portable code is hard enough, but writing portable doctests that remain user readable should not remain as hard as it currently is. The doctest module in Py3 should have a simple option to run a Py2 doctest (in a file or doc string) without requiring users to write the glue code for it. On a related note, if a 3to2 tool becomes available, this should be directly supported by doctest in Py2.6. ---------- assignee: collinwinter components: 2to3 (2.x to 3.0 conversion tool), Library (Lib) messages: 67594 nosy: collinwinter, scoder severity: normal status: open title: doctest should have lib2to3 integration type: feature request versions: Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3020> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
