[py-dev] py.test doctest and hooks...

[holger krekel]

Hi Christian, 

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 00:07 +0100, Christian Klinger wrote:
> Hi Holger,
> 
> sorry for answering so late...
> 
> we are using doctest files like ('test_*.txt').
> It seems that none of the hooks works.
> 
> Can you confirm this impression.

at this point i'd like to have a minimal example, i.e.
some files and what you type and what you think should
happen and doesn't.  I then will look into helping to
fix it.

holger

> THX
> Christian
> 
> 2011/1/19 holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu>
> 
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 14:43 +0100, Christian Klinger wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > are there any hooks in pytest which are executed before doctests are
> > > executed?
> > > I try to setup some stuff, which i want to hide in the doctest.
> >
> > doctest modules or doctest files ("test_*.txt")?
> >
> > > I already tried some "normal" pytest hooks ala:
> > >
> > > - pytest_runtest_call(item):- pytest_runtest_setup(item): But none of
> > > them seems to be executed on doctest execution. Any ideas? Christian
> >
> > Works for me.  Just tried a conftest.py like this:
> >
> >    import pytest
> >
> >    def pytest_runtest_setup(item):
> >        pytest.set_trace()
> >
> > and in the same dir a doc.txt like this:
> >
> >    >>> 3
> >    4
> >
> > and then run "py.test -s" which invokes the setup hook
> > using pytest-2.0.0 for me.
> >
> > Not sure if this is sufficient for your setup purposes, though.
> > Do you want to inject custom objects into the namespace
> > for your doctests by chance?
> >
> > If so you might want to look into
> >
> >    https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pytest/src/88c0e00cfe8b/_pytest/doctest.py
> >
> > and enhance it to suit your purposes (pass "extraglobs") and then submit
> > back
> > the mods including a test.
> >
> > On a more general note, it actually makes might make
> > sense to port the way nose is doing it, see here:
> >
> >
> > http://packages.python.org/nose/doc_tests/test_doctest_fixtures/doctest_fixtures.html
> >
> > cheers,
> > holger
> >