[Zope3-dev] Running doctests from the command line

[Shane Hathaway]

Fred Drake wrote:
> 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.

Would it make a good PEP?

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

I suppose that as long as the doctest script exists, this decision is 
entirely up to the author of a test.

Shane