[TIP] Doctest loading in unittest(2)

[Michael Foord]

Hello all,

(Especially Barry who has expressed a particular interest in this topic.)

The unittest2 plugins branch includes an example plugin for loading and 
running doctests from a project.

For getting started with trying out the plugins branch see this blog entry:

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2010_07_24.shtml#e1186

The doctest loading plugin is very primitive. During test discovery it 
loads *all* text files with doctest.DocFileTest(path, 
module_relative=False). You can also pass a path to a text file to the 
unit2 test runner. The plugin is enabled with a command line switch 
(on/off) or by setting "always-on = True" in the "[doctest]" section of 
the config file.

The doctestloader plugin source code (all 25 lines of it) can be seen at:

http://hg.python.org/unittest2/file/tip/unittest2/plugins/doctestloader.py

This is one of the plugins I think we could distribute as part of 
unittest and I would like it to be actually useful. I would really 
appreciate advice (or preferably patches ;-) on what features this 
plugin needs to be useful to those of you who integrate doctests with 
unittests - or even just want test discovery for doctests.

All the best,

Michael

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