5.2.6.4 DocTestParser objects

5.2.6.4 DocTestParser objects

class DocTestParser( ): A processing class used to extract interactive examples from a string, and use them to create a DocTest object. New in version 2.4.

DocTestParser defines the following methods:

get_doctest( string, globs, name, filename, lineno): Extract all doctest examples from the given string, and collect them into a DocTest object.
globs, name, filename, and lineno are attributes for the new DocTest object. See the documentation for DocTest for more information.

get_examples( string[, name]): Extract all doctest examples from the given string, and return them as a list of Example objects. Line numbers are 0-based. The optional argument name is a name identifying this string, and is only used for error messages.

parse( string[, name]): Divide the given string into examples and intervening text, and return them as a list of alternating Examples and strings. Line numbers for the Examples are 0-based. The optional argument name is a name identifying this string, and is only used for error messages.

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