From: Xtreak <tir.karthi@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 18:06:53 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: bpo-36406: Handle namespace packages in doctest (GH-12520)
X-Git-Tag: v3.9.0a2~24
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8289e27393395ee903bd096d42e07c112d7f15c6;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-36406: Handle namespace packages in doctest (GH-12520)
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diff --git a/Lib/doctest.py b/Lib/doctest.py
index 8fca6280b8aa..02299514bdb5 100644
--- a/Lib/doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/doctest.py
@@ -1059,7 +1059,8 @@ class DocTestFinder:
         if module is None:
             filename = None
         else:
-            filename = getattr(module, '__file__', module.__name__)
+            # __file__ can be None for namespace packages.
+            filename = getattr(module, '__file__', None) or module.__name__
             if filename[-4:] == ".pyc":
                 filename = filename[:-1]
         return self._parser.get_doctest(docstring, globs, name,
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_doctest.py b/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
index f7c399e526d1..aa92777efc3c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
@@ -701,8 +701,12 @@ class TestDocTestFinder(unittest.TestCase):
             finally:
                 support.forget(pkg_name)
                 sys.path.pop()
-            assert doctest.DocTestFinder().find(mod) == []
 
+            include_empty_finder = doctest.DocTestFinder(exclude_empty=False)
+            exclude_empty_finder = doctest.DocTestFinder(exclude_empty=True)
+
+            self.assertEqual(len(include_empty_finder.find(mod)), 1)
+            self.assertEqual(len(exclude_empty_finder.find(mod)), 0)
 
 def test_DocTestParser(): r"""
 Unit tests for the `DocTestParser` class.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-24-12-12-27.bpo-36406.mCEkOl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-24-12-12-27.bpo-36406.mCEkOl.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3d81eb50418b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-24-12-12-27.bpo-36406.mCEkOl.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Handle namespace packages in :mod:`doctest`. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.