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Python

Posted by Casey Nord
Casey Nord
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Does anyone have a good way to write a doctest for draw_map() in dd_game.py?

I'm trying to work my way through writing doctests for the functions in dd_game.py, the dungeon game we used in the Python Testing course.

I've been playing around with it in the shell and can't seem to get it to print out in a way that makes sense.

This is how I thought I could write it:

def draw_map(cells):
    """Based on array of cell coordinates, draw a grid to the screen

    >>> draw_map([(0, 0), (1, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1)])
     _ _
    |_|_|
    |_|_|

    """

When I run the doctest I get this output:

**********************************************************************
File ".\dd_game.py", line 104, in dd_game.draw_map
Failed example:
    draw_map([(0, 0), (1, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1)])
Expected:
     _ _
    |_|_|
    |_|_|
Got:
     _ _ _ _ _
    |_|_|_|_
**********************************************************************
1 items had failures:
   1 of   1 in dd_game.draw_map
***Test Failed*** 1 failures.

I thought it could have something to do with the GAME_DIMENSIONS constant as it is in the function but playing around with it hasn't changed my output at all.

Any input would be appreciated!