Replacement for ipython_doctester

doctesting_decorator.py

"""
ipython_doctester module is outdated. I tried to replace its test function with the function below
Code is from https://stackoverflow.com/a/47590703/996379
"""
import doctest
import copy
def test(func):
    '''
    Use test as a decorator to a function with doctests in Jupyter notebook. 
    Run the cell to see the results of the doctests.
    Obligatory doctest:
    >>> @test
    ... def mult(a, b):
    ...     """
    ...     >>> mult(2, 2)
    ...     4
    ...     >>> mult(3, 6)
    ...     18
    ...     """
    ...     return a * b
    ... 
    Finding tests in mult
    Trying:
        mult(2, 2)
    Expecting:
        4
    ok
    Trying:
        mult(3, 6)
    Expecting:
        18
    ok
    '''
    globs = copy.copy(globals())
    globs.update({func.__name__:func})
    doctest.run_docstring_examples(func, globs, verbose=True, name=func.__name__)
    return func

https://gist.github.com/2torus/f78b7cef5770927a92e3ca652f38ff89#file-doctesting_decorator-py-L6

Is import functools is necessary?

@tamuhey - good catch. Thanks for the feedback. I took the import out.