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  r76934 | r.david.murray | 2009-12-20 11:24:46 -0500 (Sun, 20 Dec 2009) | 2 lines

  Fix comment typo.
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  r76935 | r.david.murray | 2009-12-20 11:46:06 -0500 (Sun, 20 Dec 2009) | 10 lines

  Issue #7376: When called with no arguments doctest was running a
  self-test.  Because of a change to the way tracebacks are printed,
  this self-test was failing.  The test is run (and passes) during normal
  regression testing.  So instead of running the failing self-test this
  patch makes doctest emit a usage message.  This is better behavior anyway
  since passing in arguments is the real reason to run doctest as a command.

  Bug discovery and initial patch by Florent Xicluna.
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Lib/doctest.py

@@ -2611,14 +2611,20 @@ __test__ = {"_TestClass": _TestClass,
             """,
            }
 
+
 def _test():
     testfiles = [arg for arg in sys.argv[1:] if arg and arg[0] != '-']
-    if testfiles:
+    if not testfiles:
+        name = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
+        if '__loader__' in globals() and name.endswith('.py'):  # python -m
+            name, _ = os.path.splitext(name)
+        print("usage: {0} [-v] file ...".format(name))
+        return 2
     for filename in testfiles:
         if filename.endswith(".py"):
             # It is a module -- insert its dir into sys.path and try to
-                # import it. If it is part of a package, that possibly won't work
-                # because of package imports.
+            # import it. If it is part of a package, that possibly
+            # won't work because of package imports.
             dirname, filename = os.path.split(filename)
             sys.path.insert(0, dirname)
             m = __import__(filename[:-3])
@@ -2628,10 +2634,8 @@ def _test():
             failures, _ = testfile(filename, module_relative=False)
         if failures:
             return 1
-    else:
-        r = unittest.TextTestRunner()
-        r.run(DocTestSuite())
     return 0
 
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     sys.exit(_test())

Lib/runpy.py

@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ def _run_module_as_main(mod_name, alter_argv=True):
 
        Note that the executed module will have full access to the
        __main__ namespace. If this is not desirable, the run_module()
-       function sbould be used to run the module code in a fresh namespace.
+       function should be used to run the module code in a fresh namespace.
 
        At the very least, these variables in __main__ will be overwritten:
            __name__

Misc/NEWS

@@ -511,6 +511,9 @@ Documentation
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
+  with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
+
 - Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
 
 - Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port