On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
https://bitbucket.org/devin.jeanpierre/doctest2/src/e084a682ccbc/doctest2/co...
It's not a solution. It's a hack that only works in the simplest cases
The simplest cases are also the most common, IME. But yes, I'd like to expand it to work in a few more cases and be less insane (I'd rather not interpret printed output as Python code).
-- it requires the output to look like a Python expression (that can be evaluated in a limited environment). What if the output were something like
<Future for 'foo' returning {1: 'blah', 2: 'booh'}>
??? There's a dict in there but the whole thing is not parseable.
Yeah. I don't know of any solution to that either. Even if pure-python code generates that repr, it isn't possible to even replace the repr with a sorted dict-repr in any sane way, because %r doesn't defer to repr. It's just an intractible case. Nothing at all mentioned in this thread would work there. And I never called it easy, by the way. -- Devin