Mark Janssen wrote:

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us <mailto:ethan@stoneleaf.us>> wrote:

As probably the easiest example, what is gained by having regression tests as a document? With unittest you write a test with the expected output and your done. I would imagine a doctest being something like

"""This bug introduced in version 2.7.1, fixed in 2.7.2 >>> this = quibble('that') >>> this.attr 'correct value' """

Huh? Perhaps I'm being dumb, but this is generally done outside of unittest and within the code itself, something like:

if sys.version > 2.4: this= quibbleV4 else: this = quibbleV3

The choice of python similar version numbers was probably a mistake. The point is quibbleV3 has a bug in it, and I want to make sure that bug doesn't come back in later versions -- so I add a test in my unit tests to make sure that it doesn't. ~Ethan~