[Python-Dev] Known doctest bug with unicode?

Fri Apr 18 16:27:05 CEST 2008

# vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 :
kanamap = {
 u'あ': 'a'
}
def transpose(word):
 """Convert a word in kana to its equivalent Hepburn romanisation.
 
 >>> transpose(u'あ')
 'a'
 """
 transposed = ''
 for character in word:
 transposed += kanamap[character]
 return transposed
if __name__ == '__main__':
 import doctest
 doctest.testmod()
doctest:
[16:24] [ruigrok at akuma] (1) {20} % python trans.py
**********************************************************************
File "trans.py", line 11, in __main__.transpose
Failed example:
 transpose(u'あ')
Exception raised:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "doctest.py", line 1212, in __run
 compileflags, 1) in test.globs
 File "<doctest __main__.transpose[0]>", line 1, in <module>
 transpose(u'あ')
 File "trans.py", line 16, in transpose
 transposed += kanamap[character]
 KeyError: u'\xe3'
**********************************************************************
1 items had failures:
 1 of 1 in __main__.transpose
***Test Failed*** 1 failures.
normal interpreter:
>>> fromm trans import transpose
>>> transpose(u'あ')
'a'
-- 
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