How to get Nose to run doctests from my Markdown documentation?

[Ned Batchelder]

On 9/20/17 11:17 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> There are tools for getting doctests out of .rst files.  Is it an option to
>> use .rst instead of .md?
> Given the existence proof of md working as an extension (see my
> previous follow-up), my guess is that it more-or-less supports just
> about any nearly-plain-text format. I could use .rst, I suppose, but
> then I'd have to add a magic token to my files to tell Emacs they are
> really in Markdown format.
>

I didn't mean, "Can you name your Markdown files with an .rst 
extension," I meant, "Can you use ReST instead of Markdown?"

--Ned.