--- Pete Forman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> André <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Ok, doctest-based version of the Unit test
> example added; so much
> > more Pythonic ;-)
>
> Sorry for being a bit picky but there are a number
> of things that I'm
> unhappy with in that example.
>
Your pickiness is appreciated. :)
> 1) It's the second example with 13 lines. Though I
> suppose that the
> pragmatism of pairing the examples overriding an
> implicit goal of
> the page is itself Pythonic.
>
Since you looked at the page, I have corrected that by
making the example above it 12 lines, so that's no
longer an issue.
> 2) assert is not the simplest example of doctest.
> The style should be
>
> >>> add_money([0.13, 0.02])
> 0.15
> >>> add_money([100.01, 99.99])
> 200.0
> >>> add_money([0, -13.00, 13.00])
> 0.0
>
That's not clear cut to me. I think vertical
conciseness has an advantage for readability, as it
means you get to keep more "real" code on the screen.
> 3) which fails :-( So both the unittest and doctest
> examples ought to
> be redone to emphasize what they are doing
> without getting bogged
> down by issues of floating point representations.
>
I was the one who originally posted the floating point
example (with yet another style of unit testing, BTW),
and I agree that the subtleties of floating point do
kind of cloud the issue. I welcome a better example.
What I didn't realize is that there's an actual error.
Are you saying the program fails? On which test?
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