Chris Jerdonek added the comment:
You should also see if there are more doctest-safe or more doctest-unsafe tests, and mark the ones in the smallest group.
Running the doctests for all .rst files in the Doc/ directory using the latest patch gave me the following: 299 tests [files] OK. 126 tests failed (and 6 that I manually skipped) Following the suggestion above from Ezio, we should have a doc file marker to skip a file as opposed to including a file. This means that doctests would be included by default, which I think would be a good way to go. How do people feel about something like the following for a marker? .. doctest-skip-file (to distinguish from skipping an individual test) Or perhaps (to go with something like Nick's original suggestion) .. doctest-unsafe ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15629> _______________________________________