output capture and doctest dont work together

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Originally reported by: Ronny Pfannschmidt (BitBucket: RonnyPfannschmidt, GitHub: RonnyPfannschmidt)

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when output captureing is enabled, doctest will print to stdout instead of capturing stuff by itself

$ py.test -s
========================================== test session starts ===========================================
platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.2 -- pytest-2.1.3
collected 1 items 

test_foo.txt .

======================================== 1 passed in 0.04 seconds ========================================


$ py.test   
========================================== test session starts ===========================================
platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.2 -- pytest-2.1.3
collected 1 items 

test_foo.txt 2
F

================================================ FAILURES ================================================
_______________________________________________ [doctest] ________________________________________________
001 >>> 2
Expected:
    2
Got nothing

/home/ronny/test/test_foo.txt:1: DocTestFailure
======================================== 1 failed in 0.05 seconds ========================================

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/86

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Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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Do you happen to have a fix?

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Original comment by Ronny Pfannschmidt (BitBucket: RonnyPfannschmidt, GitHub: RonnyPfannschmidt):

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so far no, i haven't been able to figure the cause yet

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Original comment by Ronny Pfannschmidt (BitBucket: RonnyPfannschmidt, GitHub: RonnyPfannschmidt):

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i seems the breakage comes from a stangeness in the python environment

i couldn't figure what exactly was wrong