Comment 2 for bug 606897

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

DocTestParser.parse() is returning the second part of the block indented. DocTestParser() knows that >>> starts a block and that ... is subordinate and thus indented. However, changing the example doctest to ">>> finally:' causes the test to fail.

This leads me to wonder if the finally is really running in the examples in the problematic doctest. In the cases I see in the test, we could use the 'with' statement instead, or rewrite the code as a function that will be treated in a manner we expect.

I know how to hack the checker to compile the 'finally:' line, but I think it is better for us to not second guess the parser(). The doctest is bad and we should rewrite.