[Zope3-dev] PyCon doctest talk

[Stephan Richter]

On Wednesday 31 March 2004 10:13, Jim Fulton wrote:
> I promised I'd make my talk available:
>
>    http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/4/PyCon2004DocTestUnit/

Jim,

I just read through the slides and noticed that I already started a feature 
that you might be interested in. I have written a little pprint function in 
zope.app.apidoc.tests, which takes a data structure, converts all 
dictionaries in it to a sorted list of 2-tuples and then returns the result 
using the pprint module. The max width of the output is 69, so that the 
output will always fit in a doc string.

Of course, much could be improved, for example also converting class instances 
to a better comparable form or allow to specify the width dynamically, but I 
think this is a start. It made testing the many methods of view classes much 
simpler.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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