[Zope3-Users] Re: [Zope] Debugging doctests

[Benji York]

Chris McDonough wrote:
> On Feb 23, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Benji York wrote:
> 
>> If you /were/ talking about stand-alone doctests, then I have no  idea 
>> what you're talking about. :)
> 
>
> It's just opinion, but for example, I don't think zope/wfmc/xpdl.txt  
> reads much better as a doctest than it would as a plain old  unittest.  

I agree that xpdl.txt is only marginally better as a doctest in its 
current form.  I'd also claim that it's nearly a degenerate doctest.  It 
really needs more text.

 > But it's of course a judgment call.

Perhaps this is just one of those to-each-his-own things. <shrug>  My 
own are doctests. ;)
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Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation