[Zope-dev] Get rid of doctest.py in zope.testing? (Was: Bootstrapping ZCA for Python 3.)

[Jim Fulton]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 23:20, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK, I'm going to try to remove doctest.py from my branch
>
> Done. There are two tests that still fail under Python 2.x:
>
> unicode.txt:
>
> "There was another unicode bug. When a function returned unicode some internal
> state switched. This broke any further test not returning unicode but a plain
> string with unicode characters. Make sure this works now::"
>
> Well, it doesn't.
>
> testrunner-repeat.txt:
>
> The second repetition of the test fails, it seems all local variables
> suddenly are gone. Loads of "NameError: name 'x' is not defined". No
> idea how that happened.
>
>
> I assume these are errors fixed in zope.testings copy of doctest, but
> never in stdlib. Maybe Jim knows?

The unicode test relates to a feature that was added to both the
stdlib doctest and the zope.testing doctest. This was some time ago. I
don't remember any details.

I don't recall any special changes in the zope.testing version of
doctest to support repetition.

Jim

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Jim Fulton