On 2006-10-20, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Friday 20/10/2006 16:29, Neil Cerutti wrote: >>The example of correct usage it what's wrong with the >>docstring. >> >>There's no interface for checking if an event is queued in Glk, >>so I resorted to exposing the internal state main.char_request >>in the doc string. What are the alternatives? > > - what you have done
I haven't fully absorbed soapbox section of the doctest manual; it cautions against doing what I'm doing, i.e., trying to put complete test coverage in my docstrings. > - modify the interfase to allow that kind of checking Fortunately, I don't control the specification. ;-) > - use a standard unit test I'm making some progress in removing the boilerplate from the doctests by supplying globs to the testmod function. Thanks for your suggestion. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
