On 10/24/12 5:29 AM, David Roe wrote:
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Simon King <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi David, On 2012-10-24, David Roe <[email protected] <mailto:[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.
It was probably the tradeoff between automatic indentation and pasting in lines. If you have auto indent, then pasting in lines that end in a : mess up the indentation. IPython says that you should use %cpaste to go into a "paste" mode, which turns off autoindentation, among other things.
By the way, I think we're about finishing up the IPython upgrade at #12719. People are welcome to review it and test it out! I'm particularly curious how it and this ticket interact, since both are changing the doctest framework a bit.
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