From f4ce4170efe963d58ed533ad089cb7cfdccad707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: R David Murray Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:10:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] whatsnew: doctest finds tests in extension modules (#3158) #19861 msg213159 --- Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index a1d79ad199a..60445729701 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -745,6 +745,9 @@ new options, ``-o`` and ``-f``. ``-o`` allows :ref:`doctest options shorthand for ``-o FAIL_FAST`` (to parallel the similar option supported by the :mod:`unittest` CLI). (Contributed by R. David Murray in :issue:`11390`.) +:mod:`doctest` will now find doctests in extension module ``__doc__`` strings. +(Contributed by Zachary Ware in :issue:`3158`.) + email ----- @@ -2398,6 +2401,11 @@ Changes in the Python API will matter only if you have tests that are doing white-space-sensitive comparisons of such output (:issue:`16333`). +* :mod:`doctest` now looks for doctests in extension module ``__doc__`` + strings, so if your doctest test discovery includes extension modules that + have things that look like doctests in them you may see test failures you've + never seen before when running your tests (:issue:`3158`). + Changes in the C API --------------------