[Python-Dev] Unittest/doctest formatting differences in 2.7a1?

[Ian Bicking]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/12/9 Lennart Regebro <lregebro at jarn.com>:
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 18:45, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
>>> It's about time doctest got another run of development anyway.  I can
>>> imagine a couple features that might help:
>>> * Already in there, but sometimes hard to enable, is ellipsis.  Can you
>>> already do this?
>>>
>>>     >>> throw_an_exception()
>>>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>         ...
>>>     DesiredException: ...
>>
>> I think so, but what you need is:
>>
>>>     >>> throw_an_exception()
>>>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>         ...
>>>    ...DesiredException: ...
>
> No you don't. From the manual:
>
> """
> When the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL doctest option is is specified,
> everything following the leftmost colon is ignored.
> """
>
> So just use #doctest: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL

Maybe that could be extended to also ignore everything up to a period
(i.e., ignore the module name that seems to show up in 2.7 exception
names, but not in previous versions).


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