[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope3/src/persistent/tests - test_persistent.py:1.5 persistent.txt:1.2

[Chris Withers]

Jim Fulton wrote:

> doctest tests are text with Python examples.

Yes, but that is not python.

Feed the text of a doctest to python and I'm sure it will complain ;-)

> Yup. But out experience has been that it is much easier and thus
> morel likely to write well-documented tests in doctest than with the
> straight unittest framework.  For example, unitest makes it easier to
> write python code than to write words. 

What's wrong with docstrings in unit tests?

> I'm writing a paper on this for PyCon, which will be available on line.

Cool, look forward to a URL :-)

cheers,

Chris

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