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-rw-r--r--Doc/howto/descriptor.rst29
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
index e94f0ef..bc741c7 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
@@ -170,7 +170,15 @@ the lookup or update:
An interactive session shows that all access to the managed attribute *age* is
-logged, but that the regular attribute *name* is not logged::
+logged, but that the regular attribute *name* is not logged:
+
+.. testcode::
+ :hide:
+
+ import logging, sys
+ logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, stream=sys.stdout, force=True)
+
+.. doctest::
>>> mary = Person('Mary M', 30) # The initial age update is logged
INFO:root:Updating 'age' to 30
@@ -256,7 +264,15 @@ we call :func:`vars` to look up the descriptor without triggering it:
>>> vars(vars(Person)['age'])
{'public_name': 'age', 'private_name': '_age'}
-The new class now logs access to both *name* and *age*::
+The new class now logs access to both *name* and *age*:
+
+.. testcode::
+ :hide:
+
+ import logging, sys
+ logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, stream=sys.stdout, force=True)
+
+.. doctest::
>>> pete = Person('Peter P', 10)
INFO:root:Updating 'name' to 'Peter P'
@@ -433,7 +449,9 @@ Here's how the data validators can be used in a real class:
self.kind = kind
self.quantity = quantity
-The descriptors prevent invalid instances from being created::
+The descriptors prevent invalid instances from being created:
+
+.. doctest::
>>> Component('Widget', 'metal', 5) # Blocked: 'Widget' is not all uppercase
Traceback (most recent call last):
@@ -1227,7 +1245,10 @@ Now a new dictionary of unique keys can be constructed like this:
.. doctest::
- >>> Dict.fromkeys('abracadabra')
+ >>> d = Dict.fromkeys('abracadabra')
+ >>> type(d) is Dict
+ True
+ >>> d
{'a': None, 'b': None, 'r': None, 'c': None, 'd': None}
Using the non-data descriptor protocol, a pure Python version of