On 15 September 2015 at 12:42, Nathann Cohen <nathann.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
> John,
>
> I do not follow you in your message. Surely the doctests have a double
> purpose (documentation+test), but nothing prevents you from writing a
> good documentation on one side with "# not tested" flags (so that the

That is an interesting idea, as a way to get good illustrative
examples into the manual without slowing down the testing process.
But of course it would be better to have a set-up where I could (at
least temprarily) turn back on the testing of these, since if they are
not ever tested then it will not be long before they are broken.

> tests are informative to the users) while keeping in a 'TEST' sections
> some doctests dedicated to checking that the methods works, even
> though they would be hard to follow for the users.

Yes, I understand the purpose of technical TESTS which are not so
useful in the manual.

>
> If this is why this file is long to test, well, then that can be arranged.

That sounds like a threat!  I'm glad you don't know where I live....

John

>
> Nathann
>
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