diff docs/freefeatures.rst @ 396:e60e2c15f026

ignore whitespace during comparisons
author Catherine Devlin <catherine.devlin@gmail.com>
date Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:38:26 -0400
parents 52ab96d4f179
children bfbe4241bd6b
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--- a/docs/freefeatures.rst	Tue Sep 07 07:25:49 2010 -0400
+++ b/docs/freefeatures.rst	Thu Sep 16 07:38:26 2010 -0400
@@ -181,6 +181,11 @@
 
   python app.py --test transcript.txt
   
-Any deviations between the output prescribed in ``transcript.txt`` and
+Any non-whitespace deviations between the output prescribed in ``transcript.txt`` and
 the actual output from a fresh run of the application will be reported
-as a unit test failure.
+as a unit test failure.  (Whitespace is ignored during the comparison.)
+
+Regular expressions can be embedded in the transcript inside paired ``/`` 
+slashes.  These regular expressions should not include any whitespace
+expressions.
+