Comments on Literate Testing with Doctest (Marius Gedminas)

It is Marius not Marcus

Anonymous · 2006-07-18T00:46:00

It is Marius not Marcus

I think you mean "Marius". :)

Benji York · 2006-07-18T03:20:00

I think you mean "Marius". :)

Thanks for pointing out the slides, Marius. It app...

Steve · 2006-07-18T06:23:00

Thanks for pointing out the slides, Marius. It appears I should be more careful with people's names when I blog from conferences ... sorry: as you can see I've corrected it now. Thanks for your talk.

When I need to step through code in a doctest, I u...

PJE · 2006-07-19T06:25:00

When I need to step through code in a doctest, I use:

>>> import pdb;pdb.set_trace(); foo()

And that drops me into the debugger. I can also stick a set_trace() anywhere in the code that's being tested, same deal.

I'd love to see a version of Fit that ran doctests instead of using HTML tables, and colorized its output, especially if it treated the doctest as reStructuredText. That would be cool, especially if I could just keep hitting reload in a web browser as I edited code and tests. Too bad I don't have time at the moment...