[Zope3-dev] lost some functionality in DocFileSuite

[Jim Fulton]

Garrett Smith wrote:
> All of our tests are doctests, so it's very useful to have DocFileSuite 
> configure doctests with function names that can be used to run specific 
> tests on the command line. E.g. if my doctest is defined in 'foo.txt', 
> I'd like to be able to run it using something like:
> 
>   test.py . foo
> 
> This used to work, but the recent (and excellent) improvements to 
> DocFileSuite omitted this functionality.
>
> I'd like to reinstate this functionality, but perhaps its time to get 
> some feedback from the list as to what's desirable.
> 
> I think it's essential that we be able to apply function/file selection 
> patterns when running tests.

Certainly.

This is now fixed on the trunk and branch.

Jim

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