New submission from Tomáš Petříček :
Would there be an interest and possibility to add an option to the doctest
module to compare values instead of reprs? The idea is that the expected value
would be eval'ed prior to comparison if this option was enabled.
Motivation for this option
Tomáš Petříček added the comment:
Related to https://bugs.python.org/issue3332
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Tomáš Petříček added the comment:
This option can be seen as a more general case of the options already available
which lift the requirement of exact representation match (True for 1, normalize
whitespace etc.). It would enable easier testing of relevant behavior instead
of repr's arti
Tomáš Petříček added the comment:
The following tests then succeed:
def str_fun():
"""
>>> str_fun()
'foo'
>>> str_fun()
"foo"
>>> str_fun()
'''foo'''
""&qu
Tomáš Petříček added the comment:
I find the idea of combining documentation with examples and unit testing
appealing.
I see that this was not the original purpose of doctest but it seems to me as a
reasonable use case for doctest.
>>> dict_fun() == {'foo': 1, 'bar&#x
