On Thursday, April 15, 2010, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In a patch for the the Sage library (trac #7889), a file used triple
> single quotes (''') rather than triple double quotes ("""). As a
> result,
>
> - sage -coverage reported 0 coverage for that file, and
> - no doctests were run on the examples in the docstrings!
>
> Our coverage scripts and doctesting scripts should be able to handle
> this, shouldn't they?
They should.... But they definitely don't since at the time I was too
lazy to write them to deal with both cases, since I see no reason to
ever use single triple quotes.
Still I would be happy if somebody changed this scripts to handle both
single and double triple quotes, since clearly that is the right
longterm solution.
> If not -- if there is a reason to insist on """
> instead of ''' -- then we should change all ''' to """ and run
> doctests to see what needs fixing.
>
> Opinions? Volunteers to help?
>
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> John
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