doctest crash

[abalkin]

BPO	798254
Nosy	@rhettinger, @abalkin

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assignee = 'https://github.com/rhettinger'
closed_at = <Date 2003-09-02.02:15:08.000>
created_at = <Date 2003-08-31.20:26:26.000>
labels = ['library']
title = 'doctest crash'
updated_at = <Date 2003-09-02.02:15:08.000>
user = 'https://github.com/abalkin'

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activity = <Date 2003-09-02.02:15:08.000>
actor = 'rhettinger'
assignee = 'rhettinger'
closed = True
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2003-08-31.20:26:26.000>
creator = 'belopolsky'
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files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 798254
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message_count = 2.0
messages = ['18028', '18029']
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
stage = None
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = None
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue798254'
versions = ['Python 2.3']

[abalkin]

This code:

class A: 
        def f(self): pass 
 
class C(A): 
        g = A.f 
 
import doctest, sys 
doctest.testmod(sys.modules[__name__])

crashes with the following diagnostic:

Traceback (most recent call last): 
  File "<stdin>", line 8, in ? 
  File "/lib/python2.3/doctest.py", line 1147, in testmod 
    f, t = tester.rundict(m.__dict__, name, m) 
  File "/lib/python2.3/doctest.py", line 907, in rundict 
    f2, t2 = self.__runone(value, name + "." + thisname) 
  File "/lib/python2.3/doctest.py", line 1068, in __runone 
    return self.rundoc(target, name) 
  File "/lib/python2.3/doctest.py", line 827, in rundoc 
    f2, t2 = self.run__test__(d, name) 
  File "/lib/python2.3/doctest.py", line 936, in 
run__test__ 
    raise TypeError("Tester.run__test__: values in " 
TypeError: Tester.run__test__: values in dict must be 
strings, functions or classes; <unbound method A.f>

[rhettinger]

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Applied patch bpo-798269