[Numpy-discussion] Test fails for rev. 2473

[Albert Strasheim]

Hello all

> -----Original Message-----
> From: numpy-discussion-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:numpy-
> discussion-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Sasha
> Sent: 03 May 2006 17:49
> To: Johannes Loehnert
> Cc: numpy-discussion at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Test fails for rev. 2473
> 
> On 5/3/06, Johannes Loehnert <a.u.r.e.l.i.a.n at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > [snip]
> > "/scratch/jloehnert/python-svn/lib/python2.3/site-
> packages/numpy/testing/numpytest.py",
> > line 185, in rundocs
> >     tests = doctest.DocTestFinder().find(m)
> > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'DocTestFinder'
> 
> It looks like this test expects python 2.4 version of doctest.  If we
> are going to support 2.3, this is a bug.

Are doctests really worth it? They are reasonably useful when developing new
code, but "normal" tests might be better once the code is done. I also found
out that they break trace.py, a very useful tool included with Python for
determining code coverage -- knowledge that would be very useful for
identifying areas where NumPy's test suite can be improved.
 
I prepared two patches to turn the existing doctests into "normal" tests:

http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/87
http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/88

Regards,

Albert