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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() |