doctest should support -m

[ianbicking]

BPO	1156430
Nosy	@birkenfeld

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title = 'doctest should support -m'
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[ianbicking]

It would be nice if "python -m doctest a_file.py" would
run doctest on that file (either a Python module or a
text file). Right now it runs doctests on itself.

[mbeachy]

This request was implemented in 1663234, so this case can be closed.

[birkenfeld]

Closing as fixed.