doctest.OutputChecker

Module doctest :: Class OutputChecker

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Class OutputChecker

Known Subclasses:: LXMLOutputChecker

A class used to check the whether the actual output from a doctest example matches the expected output. OutputChecker defines two methods: check_output, which compares a given pair of outputs, and returns true if they match; and output_difference, which returns a string describing the differences between two outputs.

Method Summary
	`check_output(self, want, got, optionflags)` Return True iff the actual output from an example (`got`) matches the expected output (`want`).
	`output_difference(self, example, got, optionflags)` Return a string describing the differences between the expected output for a given example (`example`) and the actual output (`got`).
	`_do_a_fancy_diff(self, want, got, optionflags)`

Method Details

check_output(self, want, got, optionflags)

Return True iff the actual output from an example (got) matches the expected output (want). These strings are always considered to match if they are identical; but depending on what option flags the test runner is using, several non-exact match types are also possible. See the documentation for TestRunner for more information about option flags.

output_difference(self, example, got, optionflags)

Return a string describing the differences between the expected output for a given example (example) and the actual output (got). optionflags is the set of option flags used to compare want and got.

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