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mgedmin/floats_in_doctests.py

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A solution for dealing with str(some_float_value) differences in doctests, when you want your codebase to support both Python 2.6 and 2.7.
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floats_in_doctests.py
import re
from zope.testing.renormalizing import RENormalizing
FLOAT_CHECKER = RENormalizing([
(re.compile(r'-?\d+[.]\d+'),
lambda m: '%.6g' % float(m.group(0))),
])
... DocTestSuite(..., checker=FLOAT_CHECKER) ...
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