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

[Tim Peters]

[Jeremy Hylton]
>> In emacs, execute the command py-shell.  You'll get a Python
>> interpreter prompt.  You can cut-and-paste code from the interpreter
>> shell into a doctest.

[Chris Withers]
> Can I do that with multi-line doctest examples, or do the '...'s
> fubar everything?

Chris, doctest has been a standard core Python module since 2.1, and was in
wide use before than (that's why it got folded into the core).  So read the
docs, or just look at a doctest.  In the standard Python test suite,
test_generators.py is a good long example.