Additional doctest Tests

Most doctest module tests are located within the module. This file only tests a few additional features not covered by the module tests, so that the changes to the doctest module – which is forked from the Python standard library – are minimized.

Working with Carriage Returns

Due to the way releases are made on different platforms, we sometimes test files on a *nix system with Windows file endings. Unfortunately, that leaves some of the test files broken:

>>> import tempfile
>>> fn = tempfile.mktemp()
>>> foo = open(fn, 'w').write('Test:\r\n\r\n  >>> x = 1 + 1\r\n\r\nDone.\r\n')

Let’s now run it as a doctest:

>>> from zope.testing import doctest
>>> a, b = doctest.testfile(fn, False) # doctest 2.6 and later uses a named tuple here.
>>> a, b
(0, 1)

It worked. Let’s also try the test file suite:

>>> import unittest
>>> result = unittest.TestResult()
>>> doctest.DocFileSuite(fn, module_relative=False).run(result) 
<...TestResult run=1 errors=0 failures=0>