Bugs item #1650090, was opened at 2007-02-01 20:20
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Daniel Brown (danb37)
Assigned to: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Summary: doctest doesn't find nested functions
Initial Comment:
If a nested function has doctests, they won't be run:
{{{
def f():
'''
>>> 'a'
'a'
'''
def g():
'''
>>> 'a'
'b'
'''
pass
pass
}}}
DocTestFinder will only find f's doctest and won't recurse to find g's,
surprising the programmer when they (hopefully) discover that their inner
doctest is incorrect!
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>Comment By: Žiga Seilnacht (zseil)
Date: 2007-03-17 01:37
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Here is a patch that implements this new functionality.
I don't know how desireable this feature is, I just
wanted to see if it could be done.
File Added: doctest_nested_functions.diff
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Comment By: Piet Delport (pjdelport)
Date: 2007-03-16 21:44
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DocTestFinder uses object inspection to find docstrings, which doesn't
really allow this kind of thing: g isn't created until f is actually run.
Making this possible would probably require implementing an alternate
doctest finder based on source code inspection (via the new _ast module?).
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