I would recommend the import statements. Then you can paste the doctest into Sage and it just works. Thats a big plus IMHO. Explicit is better than implicit.
On Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 5:39:58 PM UTC+1, Christian Nassau wrote: > > Dear Sage Colleagues, > > The recently merged changes for ticket 20729 have unfortunately broken > the doctesting of an external package that I'm working on. A minor > nuisance is that symbolic links are apparently no longer resolved, but > that is something that I could circumvent (or propose a fix). More > serious to me is that I currently see no way to fix my code without > littering it with additional import statements: > > suppose I have this structure (starting from sage-root) > > testpkg/__init__.py > > testpkg/testfile.py > > where testfile.py is > > ---------------------- > """ > DOCTEST:: > > sage: myfunc() > hello > > """ > > def myfunc(): > print "hello" > > ---------------------- > > With 7.6.b1 the command "./sage -t testpkg" no longer imports the file > (because of the "__init__.py" in the same directory) and the test fails > with "NameError: name 'myfunc' is not defined". > > So my questions, probably, are these: > > 1) is that new behaviour really intended? > > 2) what should/can a package author do to still test his files? > > With regards to 2) it seems I could add an extra "from testpkg.testfile > import myfunc" at the beginning of the test, but doing this for all > global symbols in every file strikes me as a nightmare solution. Is > there maybe a better way to fix this? > > I can also see that the doctesting code checks a certain flag > "force_lib" and sage accepts a corresponding "--force_lib" argument for > doctesting. Might it be a good idea to add a command line option > "--force_code" as the opposite of "--force_lib"? > > Cheers, > > Christian > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
