doctest.DocTestSuite does not support __test__

[rhettinger]

BPO	772091
Nosy	@tim-one, @rhettinger

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[rhettinger]

The DocTestSuite tool ignores a module level dictionary
named __test__. This limits its usefulness for the
current python testsuite.

[rhettinger]

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Perhaps this can be incorporated in your updates.

[tim-one]

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Thanks for pointing it out! This got fixed by magic as part of
the refactoring -- doctest's unittest support used to have its
own code for finding things to test, entirely distinct from the
test-finding code used by the rest of doctest. Everything
uses a new common DocTestFinder class now, so there
should be no more differences in what the various wrappers
find to test.

I added a test to ensure that DocTestSuite does indeed make
tests from a __test__ dict (if present).