[TIP] Doctest or unitest?

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Wed Mar 7 12:55:01 PST 2007


Fred Drake wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>> Isn't typing '...' all the time annoying ? (or do you code first, test
>> later... ? ;-)
>
> Yes, typing '>>> ' and '... ' is horrid, and the result is visually
> distracting!  Still, ending up with better documentation is worth it.
>
>> Don't you also lose the help of the IDE with indentation and
>> autocomplete because you are no longer writing the tests in Python 
>> files ?
>
> Yup.  Stinks to be a developer.  :-(
>

Hmm... there is a better way. :-)

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

>
>  -Fred
>





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