doctest should allow running tests with "python -m doctest"

[tlynn]

BPO	5022

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labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'doctest should allow running tests with "python -m doctest"'
updated_at = <Date 2009-01-22.02:55:09.623>
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type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue5022'
versions = ['Python 2.5']

[tlynn]

It would be good to be able to do something like::

  $ python -m doctest foo.py
  $ python -m doctest --text foo.txt bar.txt

(or preferably some command line options design which could handle
both .py and .txt files).

[ggenellina]

Already implemented in Python 2.6; please upgrade.
2.5 only gets security fixes at this time.