Chris Jerdonek added the comment: Attached is a patch that adds to regrtest the ability to run doctests in both library modules and documentation files (specifically, in the non-test modules in Lib/ and in the *.rst files in Doc/). The syntax to run all doctests is-- python -m test --doctests --docdir <path-to-doc> If --docdir is left out, only module doctests are run. You can run the doctests for individual files and modules by including test names of the form "fdoc:library/builtins.rst" and "mdoc:html.parser" (for file doctests and module doctests, respectively). Doctests for a module are only run if the module has a variable `_doctest_safe` that evaluates to True. I haven't yet added a mechanism to mark a documentation file as "doctest safe" or to skip importing a library module entirely (when running all tests). ---------- components: +Tests keywords: +patch title: Run doctests in Doc/*.rst as part of regrtest -> Add to regrtest the ability to run Lib and Doc doctests Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27146/issue-15629-1.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15629> _______________________________________