with an alphanumeric is taken to be the start of the exception detail. Of
course this does the right thing for genuine tracebacks.
-* When the :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` doctest option is is specified,
- everything following the leftmost colon is ignored.
+* When the :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` doctest option is specified,
+ everything following the leftmost colon and any module information in the
+ exception name is ignored.
* The interactive shell omits the traceback header line for some
:exc:`SyntaxError`\ s. But doctest uses the traceback header line to
exception raised is ``ValueError: 3*14``, but will fail, e.g., if
:exc:`TypeError` is raised.
- Note that a similar effect can be obtained using :const:`ELLIPSIS`, and
- :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` may go away when Python releases prior to 2.4
- become uninteresting. Until then, :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` is the only
- clear way to write a doctest that doesn't care about the exception detail yet
- continues to pass under Python releases prior to 2.4 (doctest directives appear
- to be comments to them). For example, ::
+ It will also ignore the module name used in Python 3 doctest reports. Hence
+ both these variations will work regardless of whether the test is run under
+ Python 2.7 or Python 3.2 (or later versions):
+
+ >>> raise CustomError('message') #doctest: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
+ Traceback (most recent call last):
+ CustomError: message
+
+ >>> raise CustomError('message') #doctest: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
+ Traceback (most recent call last):
+ my_module.CustomError: message
+
+ Note that :const:`ELLIPSIS` can also be used to ignore the
+ details of the exception message, but such a test may still fail based
+ on whether or not the module details are printed as part of the
+ exception name. Using :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` and the details
+ from Python 2.3 is also the only clear way to write a doctest that doesn't
+ care about the exception detail yet continues to pass under Python 2.3 or
+ earlier (those releases do not support doctest directives and ignore them
+ as irrelevant comments). For example, ::
>>> (1, 2)[3] = 'moo' #doctest: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: object doesn't support item assignment
- passes under Python 2.4 and Python 2.3. The detail changed in 2.4, to say "does
- not" instead of "doesn't".
+ passes under Python 2.3 and later Python versions, even though the detail
+ changed in Python 2.4 to say "does not" instead of "doesn't".
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.2
+ :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` now also ignores any information
+ relating to the module containing the exception under test
.. data:: SKIP
functions that run doctests, establishing different defaults. In such cases,
disabling an option via ``-`` in a directive can be useful.
-
There's also a way to register new option flag names, although this isn't useful
unless you intend to extend :mod:`doctest` internals via subclassing:
# Another chance if they didn't care about the detail.
elif self.optionflags & IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL:
- m1 = re.match(r'[^:]*:', example.exc_msg)
- m2 = re.match(r'[^:]*:', exc_msg)
- if m1 and m2 and check(m1.group(0), m2.group(0),
+ m1 = re.match(r'(?:[^:]*\.)?([^:]*:)', example.exc_msg)
+ m2 = re.match(r'(?:[^:]*\.)?([^:]*:)', exc_msg)
+ if m1 and m2 and check(m1.group(1), m2.group(1),
self.optionflags):
outcome = SUCCESS
>>> doctest.DocTestRunner(verbose=False).run(test)
TestResults(failed=0, attempted=1)
+IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL also ignores difference in exception formatting
+between Python versions. For example, in Python 2.x, the module path of
+the exception is not in the output, but this will fail under Python 3:
+
+ >>> def f(x):
+ ... r'''
+ ... >>> from http.client import HTTPException
+ ... >>> raise HTTPException('message')
+ ... Traceback (most recent call last):
+ ... HTTPException: message
+ ... '''
+ >>> test = doctest.DocTestFinder().find(f)[0]
+ >>> doctest.DocTestRunner(verbose=False).run(test)
+ ... # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
+ **********************************************************************
+ File ..., line 4, in f
+ Failed example:
+ raise HTTPException('message')
+ Expected:
+ Traceback (most recent call last):
+ HTTPException: message
+ Got:
+ Traceback (most recent call last):
+ ...
+ http.client.HTTPException: message
+ TestResults(failed=1, attempted=2)
+
+But in Python 3 the module path is included, and therefore a test must look
+like the following test to succeed in Python 3. But that test will fail under
+Python 2.
+
+ >>> def f(x):
+ ... r'''
+ ... >>> from http.client import HTTPException
+ ... >>> raise HTTPException('message')
+ ... Traceback (most recent call last):
+ ... http.client.HTTPException: message
+ ... '''
+ >>> test = doctest.DocTestFinder().find(f)[0]
+ >>> doctest.DocTestRunner(verbose=False).run(test)
+ TestResults(failed=0, attempted=2)
+
+However, with IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL, the module name of the exception
+(or its unexpected absence) will be ignored:
+
+ >>> def f(x):
+ ... r'''
+ ... >>> from http.client import HTTPException
+ ... >>> raise HTTPException('message') #doctest: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
+ ... Traceback (most recent call last):
+ ... HTTPException: message
+ ... '''
+ >>> test = doctest.DocTestFinder().find(f)[0]
+ >>> doctest.DocTestRunner(verbose=False).run(test)
+ TestResults(failed=0, attempted=2)
+
+The module path will be completely ignored, so two different module paths will
+still pass if IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL is given. This is intentional, so it can
+be used when exceptions have changed module.
+
+ >>> def f(x):
+ ... r'''
+ ... >>> from http.client import HTTPException
+ ... >>> raise HTTPException('message') #doctest: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
+ ... Traceback (most recent call last):
+ ... foo.bar.HTTPException: message
+ ... '''
+ >>> test = doctest.DocTestFinder().find(f)[0]
+ >>> doctest.DocTestRunner(verbose=False).run(test)
+ TestResults(failed=0, attempted=2)
+
But IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL does not allow a mismatch in the exception type:
>>> def f(x):
John Redford
Terry Reedy
Steve Reeves
+Lennart Regebro
Ofir Reichenberg
Sean Reifschneider
Michael P. Reilly
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #7490: to facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
+ suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
+ location of the raised exception.
+
- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
filenames and enable os.fsencode().
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