I wrote a python script to do all my tests automatically for me, and generate a HTML report. I discovered discover for unittests the other day which lets me run all the unittests in a given directory without explicitly naming them, and I'd really like to be able to do my doctests the same way, rather than having to import each module explicitly.

I found some info on how to do this at https://docs.python.org/2/library/doctest.html but didn't really get it. Could you please help me with using discover with my doctests?

Python test discovery with doctests, coverage and parallelism is related, but still doesn't answer my question.

coverage_module

import coverage
import doctest
import unittest
import os

# import test_module 
import my_module

cov = coverage.Coverage()
cov.start()

# running doctest by explicity naming the module
doctest.testmod(my_module)

# running unittests by just specifying the folder to look into
testLoad = unittest.TestLoader()
testSuite = testLoad.discover(start_dir=os.getcwd())
runner = unittest.TextTestRunner()
runner.run(testSuite)

cov.stop()
cov.save()
cov.html_report()
print "tests completed"

test_module

import unittest
import doctest

from my_module import My_Class


class My_Class_Tests(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        # setup variables

    def test_1(self):
        # test code

# The bit that should load up the doctests? What's loader, tests, and ignore though? 
# Is this in the right place?
def load_tests(loader, tests, ignore):
    tests.addTests(doctest.DocTestSuite(module_with_doctests))
    return tests

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()