Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: I am attaching a patch that adds a hack that allows to run turtle doctests using turtle.run_doctests() function. Running this function has revealed numerous mistakes in doctests that are corrected in the patch. The patch is against release27 branch because there are even more problems in py3k. I don't think run_doctests hack belongs to turtle module. I think it would be more appropriate to place it in test.test_turtle. I have also not been able to figure out how to make global functions' doctests runnable. The current patch disables them by mangling the >>> prompts in docstrings. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19500/issue7061-docstrings-r27.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7061> _______________________________________