[Zope3-dev] Re: help with doctests

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> doctests have special rules for exceptions that are different from the
> rules of normal output matching.
> 
> If a statement raises an exception, the output part must be of the form
> 
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     ...
>   <exception type>: <exception value>
> 
> You can use ellipsis in the exception value part, IIRC.

But I wouldn't recommend using them. Sometimes, using ellipses are fine, 
but generally they obfuscate the doctest when you're reading it. I 
suggesting using the regex-normalizer [1]. There are many packages out 
there that use it if you're looking for examples.


http://svn.zope.org/zope.testing/trunk/src/zope/testing/renormalizing.py?rev=66267&view=auto


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