The project directory can now be passed to pystache-test (for doctest purposes).

pystache/tests/doctesting.py

@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ import pkgutil
 import doctest
 import traceback
 
-from pystache.tests.common import PACKAGE_DIR, PROJECT_DIR, TEXT_DOCTEST_PATHS
+from pystache.tests.common import PACKAGE_DIR, TEXT_DOCTEST_PATHS
 
 # This module follows the guidance documented here:
 #
 #   http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html#unittest-api
 #
 
-def get_module_doctests():
+def get_module_doctests(project_dir):
     """
     Return a list of TestSuite instances for all doctests in the pacakqge.
 
@@ -25,13 +25,11 @@ def get_module_doctests():
     suites = []
 
     # Since module_relative is False in our calls to DocFileSuite below,
-    # paths should be OS-specific.  Moreover, we choose absolute paths
-    # so that the current working directory does not come into play.
-    # See the following for more info--
+    # paths should be OS-specific.  See the following for more info--
     #
     #   http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html#doctest.DocFileSuite
     #
-    paths = [os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, path) for path in TEXT_DOCTEST_PATHS]
+    paths = [os.path.normpath(os.path.join(project_dir, path)) for path in TEXT_DOCTEST_PATHS]
     for path in paths:
         suite = doctest.DocFileSuite(path, module_relative=False)
         suites.append(suite)

pystache/tests/main.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 from unittest import TestProgram
 
-from pystache.tests.common import PACKAGE_DIR
+from pystache.tests.common import PACKAGE_DIR, PROJECT_DIR
 from pystache.tests.doctesting import get_module_doctests
 
 
@@ -27,12 +27,21 @@ def run_tests(sys_argv):
       sys_argv: a reference to sys.argv.
 
     """
+    try:
+        # TODO: use optparse command options instead.
+        project_dir = sys_argv[1]
+        sys_argv.pop()
+    except IndexError:
+        project_dir = PROJECT_DIR
+
     if len(sys_argv) <= 1 or sys_argv[-1].startswith("-"):
         # Then no explicit module or test names were provided, so
         # auto-detect all unit tests.
         module_names = _discover_test_modules(PACKAGE_DIR)
         sys_argv.extend(module_names)
 
+    _PystacheTestProgram._project_dir = project_dir
+
     # We pass None for the module because we do not want the unittest
     # module to resolve module names relative to a given module.
     # (This would require importing all of the unittest modules from
@@ -136,7 +145,7 @@ class _PystacheTestProgram(TestProgram):
     """
 
     def runTests(self):
-        doctest_suites = get_module_doctests()
+        doctest_suites = get_module_doctests(self._project_dir)
         # self.test is a unittest.TestSuite instance:
         #   http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestSuite
         self.test.addTests(doctest_suites)