A doctest plugin for pytest, which understands the sphinx-specific directives from doctest-sphinx. Those sphinx-specific directives can be used in rst files as well as in docstrings of python modules.

This Pytest plugin was generated with Cookiecutter along with @hackebrot's Cookiecutter-pytest-plugin template.

• support for testcode and testoutput directives
• support for testsetup and testcleanup is planned (pull-requests welcome)
• support for parsing global optionflags (doctest_optionflags) from pytest.ini
• support for :options: in testoutput

• pytest
• enum34 (for python2.7)

You can install "pytest-sphinx" via pip from PyPI:

$ pip install pytest-sphinx

• See doctest-sphinx.
• Run pytest with the --doctest-modules flag.

Contributions are very welcome. Tests can be run with tox, please ensure the coverage at least stays the same before you submit a pull request.

Distributed under the terms of the BSD-3 license, "pytest-sphinx" is free and open source software

If you encounter any problems, please file an issue along with a detailed description.