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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Benji York <benji.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I wonder if we can just concatenate the doctests into a single big one
>> rather than run them individually with disgusting hacks to avoid the
>> intermediary teardowns? Might take some work fixing things so line
>> numbers and filenames of failures are reported correctly - not sure if
>> doctest natively supports loading the test from multiple files.
>
> Doctest doesn't, but I don't think it would be hard to make a Manuel
> plugin that would load a set of doctests and run them as a single test
> while continuing to report failures with the original file names and
> line numbers.

We don't really have ugly hacks; see PageStoryTest. We could manually
assemble a doctest rather than a DocFileCase, but I think its
diminishing returns: we're broadly moving away from that style of
testing anyway, so there's no need to invest further.

If someone wants to -  be my guest ;)

-Rob