Sorry for not being clear.  myfoo.py is the file with the docstring
examples I want to test.  foo.py is the file with the modules I need
to import.

Let me add that sometimes they're the same file, and it doesn't work
in that case either.

On Aug 30, 8:08 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2008, at 3:33 PM, David Ketcheson wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I'm developing a package and trying to use sage -t to automatically
> > test examples I've put in the docstrings.  On the documentation page
> > athttp://www.sagemath.org/doc/prog/node29.htmlit says I can do
> > something like
>
> > """
> >     EXAMPLES:
>
> >         sage: from foo import *
> > """
>
> > where foo is not part of Sage.  However, supposing the above is in the
> > file myfoo.py, if I type
>
> > sage -t myfoo.py
>
> > I get the error
>
> > **********************************************************************
> > File "/Applications/sage/tmp/myfoo.py", line 8:
> >     sage: from foo import *
> > Exception raised:
> >     Traceback (most recent call last):
> >       File "/Applications/sage/local/lib/python/doctest.py", line
> > 1228, in __run
> >         compileflags, 1) in test.globs
> >       File "<doctest __main__.example_0[1]>", line 1, in <module>
> >         from foo import *###line 8:
> >     sage: from foo import *
> >     ImportError: No module named foo
> > **********************************************************************
>
> > Also, the documentation says a .doctest directory is created and has a
> > file .doctest_myfoo.py that I can inspect, but I cannot find any such
> > thing.  I'd be very grateful for any help.
>
> If you file is named myfoo.py, you have to do "from myfoo imoprt *"
>
> - Robert
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