[TIP] coverage.py with doctest.testfile

[Benji York]

David Montgomery wrote:
> I have coverage.py working with doctest.testmod(), but
> not with doctest.testfile().  The external tests run, but
> coverage.py doesn't pick up the lines executed by the
> text file.
> 
> Anyone on the list have experience getting this working?

I'm afraid I don't have time to look into the details at the moment, but 
zope.testing's test runner uses coverage.py with whole-file doctests, so 
you might get some insight from that code.  The code is browsable at: 
http://svn.zope.org/zope.testing/trunk/src/zope/testing/

(I'm assuming you don't want coverage of the doctest itself, but the 
code it invokes.)
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Benji York
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