Paddy wrote: > notanotheridiot wrote: > > Hi, > > I have two strings - a docstring containing doctests and a code string > > containing code to be tested with those doctests. I've been trying for > > a day now to run the test without concatenating the two strings, > > adding: > > > > import doctest > > doctest.testmod > > > > to the bottom, writing it all to a file and executing it using popen(). > > > > There must be some way of doing this without writing to a temporary > > file, any ideas? > > > > thanks in advance, > > > > johannes Woolard > Create the concatenated string then exec it?
I know from experience that this approach does not work. When you do that, the entire module from which it is run turns out to be scanned for doctests - not only the string being executed by exec. However, I understand that Johannes found a solution. André > > - Pad. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
