On May 5, 2006, at 10:33 PM, Leo Breebaart wrote: > I have a simple question (I hope), but one I'd love to get some > feedback on in case I am missing something obvious: > > If I have a Python script that is executable, and therefore > already uses '''if __name__ == "__main__"''' to call a function > of its own, what is then the easiest yet still most Pythonic way > to run doctest on the docstrings in the file? > > Trigger doctest.testmod() via a "--test" command-line option, is > what I'm thinking. But is that really the best way? >
If it is just a single standalone script, then yeah, do it that way. Once your program becomes a few files though, you might want a separate "test" file that runs doctest.testmod on each of them. Jay P. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
