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-rw-r--r--Lib/doctest.py9
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_doctest.py33
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/doctest.py b/Lib/doctest.py
index d212ad6..be824f4 100644
--- a/Lib/doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/doctest.py
@@ -2376,15 +2376,6 @@ def DocTestSuite(module=None, globs=None, extraglobs=None, test_finder=None,
suite = _DocTestSuite()
suite.addTest(SkipDocTestCase(module))
return suite
- elif not tests:
- # Why do we want to do this? Because it reveals a bug that might
- # otherwise be hidden.
- # 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 = _DocTestSuite()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_doctest.py b/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
index a1029ed..5eb8474 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
@@ -2096,22 +2096,9 @@ def test_DocTestSuite():
>>> suite.run(unittest.TestResult())
<unittest.result.TestResult run=0 errors=0 failures=0>
- However, if DocTestSuite finds no docstrings, it raises an error:
+ The module need not contain any docstrings either:
- >>> try:
- ... doctest.DocTestSuite('test.sample_doctest_no_docstrings')
- ... except ValueError as e:
- ... error = e
-
- >>> print(error.args[1])
- has no docstrings
-
- You can prevent this error by passing a DocTestFinder instance with
- the `exclude_empty` keyword argument set to False:
-
- >>> finder = doctest.DocTestFinder(exclude_empty=False)
- >>> suite = doctest.DocTestSuite('test.sample_doctest_no_docstrings',
- ... test_finder=finder)
+ >>> suite = doctest.DocTestSuite('test.sample_doctest_no_docstrings')
>>> suite.run(unittest.TestResult())
<unittest.result.TestResult run=0 errors=0 failures=0>
@@ -2121,6 +2108,22 @@ def test_DocTestSuite():
>>> suite.run(unittest.TestResult())
<unittest.result.TestResult run=9 errors=0 failures=4>
+ We can also provide a DocTestFinder:
+
+ >>> finder = doctest.DocTestFinder()
+ >>> suite = doctest.DocTestSuite('test.sample_doctest',
+ ... test_finder=finder)
+ >>> suite.run(unittest.TestResult())
+ <unittest.result.TestResult run=9 errors=0 failures=4>
+
+ The DocTestFinder need not return any tests:
+
+ >>> finder = doctest.DocTestFinder()
+ >>> suite = doctest.DocTestSuite('test.sample_doctest_no_docstrings',
+ ... test_finder=finder)
+ >>> suite.run(unittest.TestResult())
+ <unittest.result.TestResult run=0 errors=0 failures=0>
+
We can supply global variables. If we pass globs, they will be
used instead of the module globals. Here we'll pass an empty
globals, triggering an extra error: