compat.doctest.testmod API [rev. 38799]

def testmod(m=None, name=None, globs=None, verbose=None, isprivate=None, report=True, optionflags=0, extraglobs=None, raise_on_error=False, exclude_empty=False):

m=None, name=None, globs=None, verbose=None, isprivate=None, report=True, optionflags=0, extraglobs=None, raise_on_error=False, exclude_empty=False Test examples in docstrings in functions and classes reachable from module m (or the current module if m is not supplied), starting with m.__doc__. Unless isprivate is specified, private names are not skipped. Also test examples reachable from dict m.__test__ if it exists and is not None. m.__test__ maps names to functions, classes and strings; function and class docstrings are tested even if the name is private; strings are tested directly, as if they were docstrings. Return (#failures, #tests). See doctest.__doc__ for an overview. Optional keyword arg "name" gives the name of the module; by default use m.__name__. Optional keyword arg "globs" gives a dict to be used as the globals when executing examples; by default, use m.__dict__. A copy of this dict is actually used for each docstring, so that each docstring's examples start with a clean slate. Optional keyword arg "extraglobs" gives a dictionary that should be merged into the globals that are used to execute examples. By default, no extra globals are used. This is new in 2.4. Optional keyword arg "verbose" prints lots of stuff if true, prints only failures if false; by default, it's true iff "-v" is in sys.argv. Optional keyword arg "report" prints a summary at the end when true, else prints nothing at the end. In verbose mode, the summary is detailed, else very brief (in fact, empty if all tests passed). Optional keyword arg "optionflags" or's together module constants, and defaults to 0. This is new in 2.3. Possible values (see the docs for details): DONT_ACCEPT_TRUE_FOR_1 DONT_ACCEPT_BLANKLINE NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE ELLIPSIS IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL REPORT_UDIFF REPORT_CDIFF REPORT_NDIFF REPORT_ONLY_FIRST_FAILURE Optional keyword arg "raise_on_error" raises an exception on the first unexpected exception or failure. This allows failures to be post-mortem debugged. Deprecated in Python 2.4: Optional keyword arg "isprivate" specifies a function used to determine whether a name is private. The default function is treat all functions as public. Optionally, "isprivate" can be set to doctest.is_private to skip over functions marked as private using the underscore naming convention; see its docs for details. Advanced tomfoolery: testmod runs methods of a local instance of class doctest.Tester, then merges the results into (or creates) global Tester instance doctest.master. Methods of doctest.master can be called directly too, if you want to do something unusual. Passing report=0 to testmod is especially useful then, to delay displaying a summary. Invoke doctest.master.summarize(verbose) when you're done fiddling.