Add support for running DocTest

[jitseniesen]

From @spyder-issues-migrator on February 17, 2015 23:33

From [email protected] on 2015-01-27T19:21:34Z

Doctest is a useful built-in library in Python.

I would find it very useful if Spyder could run doctest on the active editor file.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=2144

Copied from original issue: spyder-ide/spyder#2144

[jitseniesen]

From @spyder-issues-migrator on February 17, 2015 23:33

From [email protected] on 2015-01-27T16:26:29Z

I've actually already started making a plugin for this. It can be found at: https://github.com/dougthor42/spyder-doctest-plugin It's still pretty basic, but it works for the most part. I think it has issues if the code has to wait for user input at any point, but it's a start.

You can take a look at the docs on the github page to see what I have planned for it.

To install:

Download doctestgui.py and p_doctest.py (also test_doctestgui.py if you want to run doctestgui.py stand-alone). Put doctestgui.py (and test_doctestgui.py) into
...\site-packages\spyderplugins\widgets
and put p_doctest.py into
...\site-packages\spyderplugins\

[jitseniesen]

From @spyder-issues-migrator on February 17, 2015 23:33

From ccordoba12 on 2015-01-30T14:32:31Z

I think this is too specialized to belong to Spyder properly, but it's just fine for a third party plugin.

We are going to improve how to install this kind of plugins in 2.4.

I'll let you know when that happens, so you can distribute your plugin more easily.

Summary: Add support for running DocTest (was: Add support for running DocTest on editor file)
Labels: MS-v2.4 Cat-Miscelleneous

[jitseniesen]

From @spyder-issues-migrator on February 17, 2015 23:33

From [email protected] on 2015-02-03T12:47:01Z

Thanks Carlos, that sounds good to me.

[jitseniesen]

From @dougthor42 on February 19, 2015 22:1

Adding comment so that I get notifications and so that I can find my issues/comments more easily.

@dougthor42

[jitseniesen]

From @Nodd on April 7, 2015 13:21

For information I started some time ago a plugin to run nosetests/pytets : https://github.com/Nodd/spyder_unittesting
If correctly configured it should run doctests too (but on a whole project, not on the current file)

[jitseniesen]

From @goanpeca on January 13, 2017 22:23

@jitseniesen I think this is related to your work on spyder-unittest.

We should maybe close this and move to the spyder-unittest repo?