[IPython-User] doctest_mode continuation change?

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is there some change that I missed that makes that bad to do?
>>
>
> No, you just found a bug, plain and simple...
>
> In fact, supposedly now IPython is smart enough to filter all prompts,
> classic or IPython ones, irrespective of %doctest_mode.  And we have
> even tests for that :)
>
> Many cases do work:
>
> In [3]: >>> x =1
>
> In [4]: x
> Out[4]: 1
>
> In [5]: >>> if x:
>   ...:     ...     print 1
>   ...:     ...
> 1
>
> In [6]:
>
> But it looks like our logic fail when there are open data structures
> that span multiple lines:
>
> In [6]: >>> a = [1,2,
>   ...: ... 3]
>  File "<ipython-input-6-d55d19c4d731>", line 2
>    ... 3]
>    ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> So lists and dicts fail, but interestingly, tuples work:
>
> In [7]: >>> a = (1,2,
>   ...: 3)
>
> In [8]: a
> Out[8]: (1, 2, 3)
>
>
> In short, it's a bug.  Tracking it here:
>
> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/678
>
> Thanks for the report, and sorry for the hassle, because it will make
> doctest handling pretty annoying...

Ah - no - onward and upward - that's what a release is for...

Cheers,

Matthew