Class IPDocTestParser

IPython/testing/plugin/ipdoctest.py:336–561

A class used to parse strings containing doctest examples. Note: This is a version modified to properly recognize IPython input and convert any IPython examples into valid Python ones.

class IPDocTestParser(doctest.DocTestParser):
    """
    A class used to parse strings containing doctest examples.

    Note: This is a version modified to properly recognize IPython input and
    convert any IPython examples into valid Python ones.
    """
    # This regular expression is used to find doctest examples in a
    # string.  It defines three groups: `source` is the source code
    # (including leading indentation and prompts); `indent` is the
    # indentation of the first (PS1) line of the source code; and
    # `want` is the expected output (including leading indentation).

    # Classic Python prompts or default IPython ones
    _PS1_PY = r'>>>'
    _PS2_PY = r'\.\.\.'

    _PS1_IP = r'In\ \[\d+\]:'
    _PS2_IP = r'\ \ \ \.\.\.+:'

    _RE_TPL = r'''
        # Source consists of a PS1 line followed by zero or more PS2 lines.
        (?P<source>
            (?:^(?P<indent> [ ]*) (?P<ps1> %s) .*)    # PS1 line
            (?:\n           [ ]*  (?P<ps2> %s) .*)*)  # PS2 lines
        \n? # a newline
        # Want consists of any non-blank lines that do not start with PS1.
        (?P<want> (?:(?![ ]*$)    # Not a blank line
                     (?![ ]*%s)   # Not a line starting with PS1
                     (?![ ]*%s)   # Not a line starting with PS2
                     .*$\n?       # But any other line
                  )*)
                  ''&#x27;

    _EXAMPLE_RE_PY = re.compile( _RE_TPL % (_PS1_PY,_PS2_PY,_PS1_PY,_PS2_PY),
                                 re.MULTILINE | re.VERBOSE)

    _EXAMPLE_RE_IP = re.compile( _RE_TPL % (_PS1_IP,_PS2_IP,_PS1_IP,_PS2_IP),
                                 re.MULTILINE | re.VERBOSE)

    # Mark a test as being fully random.  In this case, we simply append the
    # random marker ('#random') to each individual example's output.  This way
    # we don't need to modify any other code.
    _RANDOM_TEST = re.compile(r'#\s*all-random\s+')

    # Mark tests to be executed in an external process - currently unsupported.
    _EXTERNAL_IP = re.compile(r'#\s*ipdoctest:\s*EXTERNAL')

    def ip2py(self,source):
        """Convert input IPython source into valid Python."""
        block = _ip.input_transformer_manager.transform_cell(source)
        if len(block.splitlines()) == 1:
            return _ip.prefilter(block)
        else:
            return block

    def parse(self, string, name='<string>'):
        """