A class used to extract the DocTests that are relevant to a given object, from its docstring and the docstrings of its contained objects. Doctests can currently be extracted from the following object types: modules, functions, classes, methods, staticmethods, classmethods, and properties.
There are no base classes.
There are no implemented interfaces.
There are no attributes in this class.
find(obj, name=None, module=None, globs=None, extraglobs=None, optionflags=0)
Return a list of the DocTests that are defined by the given object's docstring, or by any of its contained objects' docstrings.
The optional parameter module is the module that contains the given object. If the module is not specified or is None, then the test finder will attempt to automatically determine the correct module. The object's module is used:
- As a default namespace, if globs is not specified.
- To prevent the DocTestFinder from extracting DocTests from objects that are imported from other modules.
- To find the name of the file containing the object.
- To help find the line number of the object within its file.
Contained objects whose module does not match module are ignored.
If module is False, no attempt to find the module will be made. This is obscure, of use mostly in tests: if module is False, or is None but cannot be found automatically, then all objects are considered to belong to the (non-existent) module, so all contained objects will (recursively) be searched for doctests.
The globals for each DocTest is formed by combining globs and extraglobs (bindings in extraglobs override bindings in globs). A new copy of the globals dictionary is created for each DocTest. If globs is not specified, then it defaults to the module's __dict__, if specified, or {} otherwise. If extraglobs is not specified, then it defaults to {}.
There are no known subclasses.