doctest.testmod

        def testmod(m=None, name=None, globs=None, verbose=None,
            report=True, optionflags=0, extraglobs=None,
            raise_on_error=False, exclude_empty=False):
    """m=None, name=None, globs=None, verbose=None, report=True,
       optionflags=0, extraglobs=None, raise_on_error=False,
       exclude_empty=False

    Test examples in docstrings in functions and classes reachable
    from module m (or the current module if m is not supplied), starting
    with m.__doc__.

    Also test examples reachable from dict m.__test__ if it exists and is
    not None.  m.__test__ maps names to functions, classes and strings;
    function and class docstrings are tested even if the name is private;
    strings are tested directly, as if they were docstrings.

    Return (#failures, #tests).

    See doctest.__doc__ for an overview.

    Optional keyword arg "name" gives the name of the module; by default
    use m.__name__.

    Optional keyword arg "globs" gives a dict to be used as the globals
    when executing examples; by default, use m.__dict__.  A copy of this
    dict is actually used for each docstring, so that each docstring's
    examples start with a clean slate.

    Optional keyword arg "extraglobs" gives a dictionary that should be
    merged into the globals that are used to execute examples.  By
    default, no extra globals are used.  This is new in 2.4.

    Optional keyword arg "verbose" prints lots of stuff if true, prints
    only failures if false; by default, it's true iff "-v" is in sys.argv.

    Optional keyword arg "report" prints a summary at the end when true,
    else prints nothing at the end.  In verbose mode, the summary is
    detailed, else very brief (in fact, empty if all tests passed).

    Optional keyword arg "optionflags" or's together module constants,
    and defaults to 0.  This is new in 2.3.  Possible values (see the
    docs for details):

        DONT_ACCEPT_TRUE_FOR_1
        DONT_ACCEPT_BLANKLINE
        NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
        ELLIPSIS
        SKIP
        IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
        REPORT_UDIFF
        REPORT_CDIFF
        REPORT_NDIFF
        REPORT_ONLY_FIRST_FAILURE

    Optional keyword arg "raise_on_error" raises an exception on the
    first unexpected exception or failure. This allows failures to be
    post-mortem debugged.

    Advanced tomfoolery:  testmod runs methods of a local instance of
    class doctest.Tester, then merges the results into (or creates)
    global Tester instance doctest.master.  Methods of doctest.master
    can be called directly too, if you want to do something unusual.
    Passing report=0 to testmod is especially useful then, to delay
    displaying a summary.  Invoke doctest.master.summarize(verbose)
    when you're done fiddling.
    """
    global master

    # If no module was given, then use __main__.
    if m is None:
        # DWA - m will still be None if this wasn't invoked from the command
        # line, in which case the following TypeError is about as good an error
        # as we should expect
        m = sys.modules.get('__main__')

    # Check that we were actually given a module.
    if not inspect.ismodule(m):
        raise TypeError("testmod: module required; %r" % (m,))

    # If no name was given, then use the module's name.
    if name is None:
        name = m.__name__

    # Find, parse, and run all tests in the given module.
    finder = DocTestFinder(exclude_empty=exclude_empty)

    if raise_on_error:
        runner = DebugRunner(verbose=verbose, optionflags=optionflags)
    else:
        runner = DocTestRunner(verbose=verbose, optionflags=optionflags)

    for test in finder.find(m, name, globs=globs, extraglobs=extraglobs):
        runner.run(test)

    if report:
        runner.summarize()

    if master is None:
        master = runner
    else:
        master.merge(runner)

    return TestResults(runner.failures, runner.tries)