On May 20, 1:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On May 16, 6:38 pm, Krypto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have been using python shell to test small parts of the big program. > >> What other ways can I use the shell effectively. My mentor told me > >> that you can virtually do anything from testing your program to > >> anything in the shell. Any incite would be useful. > > >Doctest! > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctest > > . > . > . > <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocTest> will probably prove more fruitful. > > While I don't like follow-ups which consist of trivial corrections, I *very* > much want to encourage readers to explore Doctest more deeply; it deserves the > attention, even at the cost of appearing pedantic.
Sometimes you have to mess with the case of letters in wiki pages which is the case here, but I did actually cut-n-paste the address from Wikipedia as I like to look at the page from time to time as, like yourself, I think doctest shows the true spirit of what is Pythonic, and created the page when I found Wikipedia did not have it. Gets me thinking along the lines of "What else should the intermediate Python programmer know about"? The other Python tool I am apt to carp on about is Kodos http://kodos.sourceforge.net/ . Kodos is a great tool for those new to reguar expressions. It allows you to test your regular expressions on snippets of text and gives great visual feedback on the results. After over a decade of writing regexps I still use Kodos occasionally, and wish I had such a tool a decade ago. - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
