[issue19412] Add docs for test.support.requires_docstrings decorator

Cheryl Sabella added the comment: I added `HAVE_DOCSTRINGS`,`MISSING_C_DOCSTRINGS`, `requires_docstring` to the test.support documentation under issue11015. Additional changes to those three have been made under issue32843, so I am closing this issue in favor of

[issue19412] Add docs for test.support.requires_docstrings decorator

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[issue19412] Add docs for test.support.requires_docstrings decorator

Ezio Melotti added the comment: I was bitten by this in #19535. See the third point about test_contextlib in msg203071. I would expect support.requires_docstring to skip the test if -OO is used and the docstrings are missing. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue19412] Add docs for test.support.requires_docstrings decorator

Nick Coghlan added the comment: OK, since David agrees the updated behaviour of the requires_docstring decorator makes sense (i.e. skipping __doc__ related tests whenever the docstrings are unreliable, regardless of the reason), I'm morphing this to be a test.support docs issue. At least