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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2004-12-21 23:46:34 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2004-12-21 23:46:34 (GMT)
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add __file__ to the globals available for tests loaded via DocFileSuite;
this is useful for locating supporting data files, just as it is in Python modules
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@@ -1107,6 +1107,10 @@ instances from text files and modules with doctests:
defaults to a normal parser (i.e., \code{\class{DocTestParser}()}).
\versionadded{2.4}
+
+ Starting in Python 2.5, the global \code{__file__} was added to the
+ globals provided to doctests loaded from a text file using
+ \function{DocFileSuite()}.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{DocTestSuite}{\optional{module}\optional{,