[Zope3-dev] Running doctests from the command line

[Fred Drake]

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 11:52 am, Shane Hathaway wrote:
 > Hey, that's an idea: add '#!/usr/bin/doctest' to the top (Or some
 > variation thereof) and 'chmod a+x README.txt'.  That would be cool.  To
 > run the tests, type './README.txt'.

I like the idea of a doctest (not doctest.py!) script that gets installed in 
$exec_prefix/bin/ that can be used to run doctest over text files as well as 
Python code.

The idea of making text files runnable feels really, really dirty, though.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation