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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-09-10 14:15:58 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-09-10 14:15:58 (GMT) |
| commit | 5abd76a75d633a1ba6f5fcc66b0bc4799b9e2eaa (patch) | |
| tree | f5f595962bd537e345bb6b567e8bc3cd6a14418e /Lib/doctest.py | |
| parent | 01beb69c7dacc0a59acd568239322716da6e55d0 (diff) | |
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#14649: clarify DocTestSuite error when there are no docstrings.
Also adds tests to verify the documented behavior (which is probably a bug, as
indicated in the added comments).
Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/doctest.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/doctest.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/doctest.py b/Lib/doctest.py index cc3b425..e189c8f 100644 --- a/Lib/doctest.py +++ b/Lib/doctest.py @@ -2333,7 +2333,12 @@ def DocTestSuite(module=None, globs=None, extraglobs=None, test_finder=None, elif not tests: # Why do we want to do this? Because it reveals a bug that might # otherwise be hidden. - raise ValueError(module, "has no tests") + # It is probably a bug that this exception is not also raised if the + # number of doctest examples in tests is zero (i.e. if no doctest + # examples were found). However, we should probably not be raising + # an exception at all here, though it is too late to make this change + # for a maintenance release. See also issue #14649. + raise ValueError(module, "has no docstrings") tests.sort() suite = unittest.TestSuite() |