[TIP] unittest2 discovery / doctest integration?

[Michael Foord]

On 28/04/2010 22:53, Pete wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Pete wrote:
>    
>> Appears the way to do this goes like so. In your mostly-unittests test module, define a load_tests:
>>
>> def load_tests(loader, tests, ignore):
>>     tests.addTests(doctest.DocTestSuite(module_with_doctests))
>>     return tests
>>
>> Pretty straightforward, though not at all obvious.  Looks like the documentation for doctest could use an update... http://docs.python.org/dev/library/doctest.html#unittest-api I'd write a patch (hello-to-my-friend-jesse-noller), but I'm not entirely sure what to say (tl;dr) - would replacing the code sample&  changing its description to read "To integrate with unittest discovery, include the following in a module of unittests:" suffice?
>>      
> I just went ahead and created bug 8564 w/ a patch if anyone cares.  Thanks all.
>    

Using load_tests seems like the best way to integrate doctests with 
unittest test discovery to me. When unittest is more extensible there 
may be a better way (creating a doctest loader to inspect modules), but 
for now this is the best way.

I'll commit the doctest documentation update next time I set aside some 
"core python" time.

All the best,

Michael

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