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| 61 | The module docstring, and all function, class and method docstrings are |
| 62 | searched. Objects imported into the module are not searched. |
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| 65 | In addition, if <code>M.__test__</code> exists and "is true", it must be a |
| 66 | dict, and each entry maps a (string) name to a function object, class |
| 67 | object, or string. Function and class object docstrings found from |
| 68 | <code>M.__test__</code> are searched, and strings are treated as if they |
| 69 | were docstrings. In output, a key <code>K</code> in <code>M.__test__</code> appears |
| 70 | with name |
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| 73 | <div class="verbatim"><pre> |
| 74 | <name of M>.__test__.K |
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| 78 | Any classes found are recursively searched similarly, to test docstrings in |
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