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whatsnew: doctest finds tests in extension modules (#3158) #19861 msg213159 [#3158]

R David Murray rdmurray@bitdance.com
date	Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:10:53 -0400
parents	e47646fca428
children	0d230ad6b51a
files	Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
diffstat	1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)[+] [-] Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst 8

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--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -745,6 +745,9 @@ new options, -o and -f. -o shorthand for -o FAIL_FAST (to parallel the similar option supported by the :mod:unittest CLI). (Contributed by R. David Murray in :issue:11390.) +:mod:doctest will now find doctests in extension module __doc__ strings. +(Contributed by Zachary Ware in :issue:3158.) + email ----- @@ -2398,6 +2401,11 @@ Changes in the Python API will matter only if you have tests that are doing white-space-sensitive comparisons of such output (:issue:16333). +* :mod:doctest now looks for doctests in extension module __doc__

strings, so if your doctest test discovery includes extension modules that
have things that look like doctests in them you may see test failures you've
never seen before when running your tests (:issue:3158). + Changes in the C API --------------------