[Zope-dev] doctest in python and zope.testing have a bug, where do I report?

[Chris Withers]

Chris Withers wrote:
> ValueError: Module-relative files may not have absolute paths

Okay, so this is because the check is this little gem:

if path.startswith('/'):
   raise ValueError, 'Module-relative files may not have absolute paths'

Cross platform FAIL :-(

A few questions:

- how can this actually be written in a cross platform way? Absolute 
paths start with a drive letter on Windows, no?

- why are absolute paths bad here anyway? The code that causes this 
problem was:

     return DocFileSuite(
         optionflags=REPORT_NDIFF|ELLIPSIS,
         *glob(join(dirname(__file__),pardir,'docs','*.txt'))
         )

I have a nagging feeling this has come up before, but still, the above 
seems to be viable if maybe not preferred?

- where do I report the cross platform bug? Python core tracker? What 
about zope.testing? Where does its tracker live now?

cheers,

Chris

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