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pythondoctest
Shams Ansari
Shams Ansari

Reputation: 820

How to run the doctest for a single function in python3?

How do I run the doctest for only a single function in python using the command line? I can python3 -m doctest -v main.py but this will run all the doctests in main.py. How do I specify one function to call the doctest on?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2399

Answers (2)

jncraton
jncraton

Reputation: 9132

You can accomplish this using my doctestfn package:

pip install doctestfn

It can then be used to run tests for a single function in a module as follows:

doctestfn myfile.py myfunction

Upvotes: 0

René Pijl
René Pijl

Reputation: 4738

That depends on the code in main.py that runs the doctests. You can change that code to test a specific function by calling doctest.run_docstring_examples().

When that code runs doctest.testmod() however, you cannot limit testing to a single function from the command line.

Upvotes: 2

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