Since nobody objected to my warning post, the following features are now available for all NumPy 1.2 doctests:
- All doctests in NumPy will have the numpy module available in their execution context as "np".
- The normalized whitespace option is enabled for all doctests.
- Adding "#random" to expected output will now cause that output to be ignored, but the associated example command will still be executed. So you can now do this to provide a descriptive example but not have it fail:
>>> random.random()
0.1234567890 #random: output may differ on your system
Later today I'll commit some changes to existing doctests that take advantage of these changes. Apparently some of the doctests haven't been run in a long time; tensorsolve, for example, referenced an undefined "wrap" function, and there were no unit tests to turn up this problem. :/ We're going to add a flag to the buildbot test command to run the doctests as well from now on, so that might help improve coverage a bit.
By the way, many thanks to whomever installed nose on the NumPy buildbots! :)
