[issue2604] doctest.DocTestCase fails when run repeatedly

New submission from Piet Delport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: DocTestCase.tearDown destructively clears its DocTest instance's globs, preventing the test from being run repeatedly (such as with trial --until-failure). There's a fix for this in zope.testing's version of doctest, w

[issue2604] doctest.DocTestCase fails when run repeatedly

Piet Delport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Addendum: This appears to be a regression in r36809 (Python 2.4+). __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.pytho

[issue2605] Descriptor instance attributes not interpreted consistently

New submission from Piet Delport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Short version: __get__/__set__/__delete__ attributes on descriptor objects (as opposed to their types) are treated inconsistently as part of the descriptor protocol: the documentation and support code includes them; the core implemen

[issue2604] doctest.DocTestCase fails when run repeatedly

Piet Delport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > If any of the variables in test.globs are changed by the test (e.g. appending to a list), then rerunning the test will not necessarily give the same result. This is true, but modifying the globals such that subsequent runs of the

[issue2604] doctest.DocTestCase fails when run repeatedly

Piet Delport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Well, whether that code is wrong depends on whether your project policy wants repeatable tests or not. A repeatable and arguably more idiomatic way of writing that example is to give DocFileSuite a setUp function which initializes any s

[issue2605] Descriptor instance attributes not interpreted consistently

Piet Delport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Related: #643841 (new-style special method lookup) __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2605> __ _

[issue643841] New class special method lookup change

Piet Delport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Somewhat related: #2605 (descriptor __get__/__set__/__delete__) -- nosy: +pjd Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.

[issue2605] Descriptor instance attributes not interpreted consistently

Piet Delport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: >From the Py3K list: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-March/006304.html The sentiment appears to be to leave the behavior implementation-defined. It seems straightforward to update inspect and pydoc to mirror typ

[issue2604] doctest.DocTestCase fails when run repeatedly

Changes by Piet Delport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10060/reset_globs.patch __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.pytho