Hi everyone, I've run into a very puzzling doctest behaviour - I'm trying to narrow down the case of it but I'm dealing with multiple files being imported for one of the case and I have not, so far, created a simple example. However, just in case someone had run into something similar, I thought I would ask.
I am using the doctest.testfile() interface to load up tests that resides in a text file. Here's a description of the puzzling feature. ==== file 1: all tests pass ==== title >>> print "<" < >>> import module_a >>> print "<" < ======================== So far, nothing surprising... ==== file 2: we have a failure ==== title >>> print "<" < >>> import module_a >>> print "<" < + 400 lines of text and further tests ======================== The second expected "<" fails; instead, we get "<" ==== file 3: all tests pass ==== title >>> print "<" < >>> import module_a >>> print "<" < + 400 lines of text and further tests ======================== Upon further inspection, I find in module_a that, if I comment out a line like import module_b then, tests in file 2 pass again. So, I figure the problem is in module_b. I then did ==== file 4: one failure ==== title >>> print "<" < >>> import module_b >>> print "<" < + 400 lines of text and further tests ======================== Again, this can be "fixed" by changing the expected output of the second test ==== file 5: no failure ==== title >>> print "<" < >>> import module_b >>> print "<" < + 400 lines of text and further tests ======================== As mentioned, I have not succeeded in narrowing it down further. However, has anyone observed such a behaviour of doctests before? André -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
