By the way, I copied this 2006-10 clp issue into Bugs.python.org. --
Pat LaVarre
http://bugs.python.org/issue1611
TITLE: doctest.testmod gets noisy if called more than once per
SystemExit
SUMMARY:
Calling doctest.testmod more than once before SystemExit spews stderr
messages such as ***
Sent: 2006-11-09; To: comp.lang.python
Can doctest ... be persuaded to exit after a catastroph[e]...?
...
sys.exit() doesn't do what I mean:
it raises SystemExit ... [and doesn't exit]
...
doctest.REPORT_ONLY_FIRST_FAILURE doesn't do what I mean
[it filters stdout but doesn't exit]
Yes