[Zope3-dev] super-mini proposal for doctestunit.py

[Jim Fulton]

Garrett Smith wrote:
> We're making extensive use of doctests and have copied and pasted the 
> code from zope/testing/doctestunit.py because it's unusable outside its 
> package.



> I'd like to make the following change, which opens up the function for 
> general use:
> 
> 90c90,98
> < def DocFileSuite(*paths):
> ---
>  > def DocFileSuite(package, *paths):
>  >     """Creates a suite of doctest files.
>  >
>  >     package is the source package containing the doctest files.
>  >
>  >     Each subsequent argument is a string specifying the file name of the
>  >     doctest relative to the package.
>  >     """
>  >
> 99c107
> <     dir = os.path.split(__file__)[0]
> ---
>  >     dir = os.path.split(package.__file__)[0]
> 
> This change has no impact on the Zope core, but I wanted to check with 
> the list in case it would break anyone's exsiting testing.

Hm. Dang. I guess this wasn't used. :(

I'd prefer to have the package provided as an optional keyword
argument that defaults to the package containing the calling module.

Jim

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