can a doctest depend on an external file?

[rkurchin]

I want to have a doctest demonstrating how to read in an object from a file, but I can't figure out how to specify the path to the file. I've tried putting a cd in the setup line but that errors in a somewhat opaque way. I created a dummy test that just runs pwd() to try to figure out where they're actually running but it prints a blank line. Is what I'm trying to do even possible?

[fredrikekre]

pwd() should be the output directory.

[rkurchin]

Could this have something to do with the fact that I'm trying to build the docs locally but they're set up to deploy online? There are a variety of approaches for doing that in #1413; would that matter? I can try to make an MWE for this but it would take awhile to figure out how to do...

[fredrikekre]

Maybe you are experiencing #921

[rkurchin]

I don't think so; it works fine if I specify an absolute path on my local system. But that obviously won't work for deployment purposes. I just need some way to figure out in what directory the doctests are actually running, but I don't know how to do that since pwd() doesn't print anything...

[fredrikekre]

figure out in what directory the doctests are actually running

It should be the output directory of the markdown (well, html) file.

since pwd() doesn't print anything...

Hmm, thats strange

[rkurchin]

Okay, so I was trying to make an MWE and the issue seems to have gone away. I have no idea what changed; I didn't even restart my REPL or anything. Sorry for the bother! 🤷‍♀️