[TIP] unittest2 discovery / doctest integration?

[Olemis Lang]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.

I suppose I *can* and *will* disagree ... JFTR and without flamewars

> When unittest is more extensible

I really don't see the need for more extensibility than we have today
in order to get this done, specially since it's already done by e.g.
`dutest` . Using dutest classes (especially `PackageTestLoader` and
`MultiTestLoader`) anybody should be able to load any kind of test
cases, including wrappers -adapters- for particular test styles |
frameworks, from anywhere within a (file-system) package structure or
a subset of this structure, and make that decision anywhere (not just
inside `load_tests`)

> there may be a better
> way (creating a doctest loader to inspect modules), but for now this is the
> best way.
>

Like those in `dutest` ? How much different will they be ? Just curious ...

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