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tip: interactive python from cygwin when using windows python install
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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Poll Results: test frameworks
Well, the poll I put up a couple weeks ago has 125 votes last I checked.
Results
- nose, 42 votes
- pytest, 32 votes
- unittest, 29 votes
- doctest, 18 votes
- other, 4 votes
The other votes were:
- twisted trial (also mentioned in a comment)
- pyVows
- attest
- zope.testing
Commentary
This is mostly what I expected.
So I think I’m on the Continue reading
doctest introduction
The doctest test framework is a python module that comes prepackaged with Python. This post covers the basics of how to put doctests in your code, and outside of your code, in a separate file. Then I’ll show how I’m using it to test markdown.py.
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