Working of doctest Module

The doctest module works by examining the docstrings in the module, from the module level to the function, class and method levels. It will not look at imported modules though. For most of the part, we can use just copy-and-paste an interactive console session, and doctest module will work fine with it.

doctest will look for output following the final >>> or … line that contains code. Said output will only extend to the next >>> or all-whitespace line.

Here are a few gotcha’s to watch out for.

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