Configure Django to find all doctests in all modules?

Question

If I run the following command:

>python manage.py test

Django looks at tests.py in my application, and runs any doctests or unit tests in th

Answer 1

I'm not up to speed on Djano's testing, but as I understand it uses automatic unittest discovery, just like python -m unittest discover and Nose.

If so, just put the following file somewhere the discovery will find it (usually just a matter of naming it test_doctest.py or similar).

Change your_package to the package to test. All modules (including subpackages) will be doctested.

import doctest
import pkgutil

import your_package as root_package


def load_tests(loader, tests, ignore):
    modules = pkgutil.walk_packages(root_package.__path__, root_package.__name__ + '.')
    for _, module_name, _ in modules:
        try:
            suite = doctest.DocTestSuite(module_name)
        except ValueError:
            # Presumably a "no docstrings" error. That's OK.
            pass
        else:
            tests.addTests(suite)
    return tests