[Zope-dev] Python 2.7 and the ZTK - three test failures

[Charlie Clark]

Am 06.07.2010, 13:12 Uhr, schrieb Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com>:

> What do you mean, a doctest embedded within another? I'm probably
> missing something.

No, it's probably me getting the explicit doctest call wrong. It looks to  
my novice eyes like print statement is being passed to a "doctest" method.  
In matters like these it's usually safe to assume I'm wrong! :-)

Proposed solution: rewrite this particular doctest to use a test browser.

>> Furthermore, while it's great that form.txt actually runs I wasn't aware
>> that it contained any additional tests that are not already run and I've
>> always treated it as testable documentation not as an integral part of  
>> the
>> formlib tests. But I'm ready to be believe this is a large misconception
>> on my part.

> I follow the principle that all testable stuff should actually be run
> during the tests - just in case.

hm, I don't think that can be argued with really, particularly given the  
amount of time I've actually studied this and other documents over reading  
the code. But I do think that, whether the module runs as specified, and  
whether the documentation is up to snuff, are of a different nature and,  
consequently, so are their failures. Shouldn't we be testing documentation  
differently?

Charlie
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