doctest annoyance/puzzle

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:41:15 +0200, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:

> Hi Steven,
> 
> On 2010-09-05 17:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> I run the doctests with:
>> 
>> python2.6 -m doctest examples.txt
>> 
>> and the first example passes, but the second fails with NameError:
>> make_spam not defined.
> 
> I run my doctests by calling
> 
>     doctest.testfile(filename)
> 
> for each file in a loop. This way, names and their associated objects
> survice from one code block to the next.


That's fine if you're calling it from Python, but I want a way to run the 
tests from the shell, and the advertised way to do that is by calling 
doctest.py as a script. The module calls testfile, so it should work.

And now it's working for me. I have *no idea* what happened there... it 
wasn't working for me before, and now it is.

Sorry for the noise :(


-- 
Steven