[TIP] Best way to do setup/teardown on a per-test basis using doctest?

[Titus Brown]

-> But I am willing to give a doctest a shot.  To learn it I have a need
-> to write some regression tests for __import__.  But because it is
-> testing something that has a lot of file I/O I have a need to
-> temporarily create some files, run the tests, and then delete the
-> created files.
-> 
-> I read about the Unittest API, but I would like to be able to specify
-> what files to create on a per-test basis.  Normally I would use a
-> try/finally or develop a context manager, but that would suppress the
-> output from expression evaluation and thus kill the testing (if I
-> understand how doctest works).
-> 
-> So what is the best way to approach this?

I didn't spot any replies to the actual question ;).

Short answer: I don't know.  The setup/teardown part of doctests
is, IMO, quite annoying.  There was some mention a few months back on
this list of using reST-style footnotes to specify setup and teardown
code (related to Zope, I believe).  That would be a good solution to
try.

Right now I would approach your problem by developing a utils module
that contains functions to do the setup/teardown, and then I'd call
them explicitly in the doctests.

cheers,
--titus