On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Simon King <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> On 2012-10-24, David Roe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 1.  Are there any objections to continuing to allow this backslash
> notation?
>
> At least not from me.
>
> > 2.  Are there any opinions on whether we should change the format some
> > files in sage/tests to use "....: " rather than "..." for line
> > continuations?
>
> Since "....: " is shown in interactive sessions if you define something
> that spans over several lines, I'd actually appreciate to use "....: "
> rather than "...". In that way, one could simply copy-and-paste when
> creating a doc test.
>
> However, it would also be nice if doc tests could simply be pasted into
> an interactive session.
>

I agree that this would be nice.  I recall a discussion from Sage Days 40.5
where Volker was working on upgrading IPython and there was a choice to be
made between being able to paste in doctests and something else, but I
don't recall the details.
David

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