Doctest configuration optionflags. Enhancement.

[jpellerin]

It would be useful to allow users to specify doctest option flags such as +ELLIPSIS or
+NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE in the configuration file and/or on the command line.

Attached is a patch that permits this with the added option --doctest-options which accepts a
comma separated list of option flags such as "+ELLIPSIS,+NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE".

Google Code Info:
Issue #: 306
Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2009-11-12T02:05:06.000Z
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[jpellerin]

Correct patch.

Google Code Info:
Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2009-11-12T03:59:48.000Z

[jpellerin]

Google Code Info:
Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2009-11-12T15:06:57.000Z

[jpellerin]

I applied the patch here http://bitbucket.org/kumar303/nose-doctest-306/

I also added unit and functional tests and amended the documentation. There are two
tests failing in 2.4 only but those were already failing in the nose-unstable fork I
pulled from (init_plugin.rst doctest)

Google Code Info:
Author: kumar.mcmillan
Created On: 2009-11-12T17:16:22.000Z

[jpellerin]

Has there been any progress on this? This would singlehandedly make nose actually useful with doctests. Thanks. :)

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Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2010-10-22T12:24:41.000Z

[jpellerin]

Applying this patch to nose 1.1.2 seems to work fine on my system. I have a project with hundreds of doctests, and the nose plugin to PyDev/Eclipse became much more useful with the patch.

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Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2011-10-30T13:52:55.000Z

[jpellerin]

Patch: https://gist.github.com/1477317

[xim]

NLTK, the Natural Language ToolKit for Python uses a lot of doctests that need +ELLIPSIS and/or +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE. We have successfully been running our tests with this patch. Would love to see this applied in master so we don't have to bundle a patched version of nose to run our test suite…

[amueller]

This patch would really be great for scikit-learn, too.
We have the same issues as nltk.

Does anyone plan on including this or do we have to monkey-patch?

[amueller]

Oh, it looks like this was merged. is that right?

[jpellerin]

Yeah, this is in 1.2.1, unless I've done something very wrong.