y a caller can catch the errors and initiate post-mortem debugging. The DocTestCase provides a debug method that raises UnexpectedException errors if there is an unexpected exception: >>> test = DocTestParser().get_doctest('>>> raise KeyError\n42', ... {}, 'foo', 'foo.py', 0) >>> case = DocTestCase(test) >>> try: ... case.debug() ... except UnexpectedException as f: ... failure = f The UnexpectedException contains the test, the example, and the original exception: >>> failure.test is test True >>> failure.example.want '42\n' >>> exc_info = failure.exc_info >>> raise exc_info[1] # Already has the traceback Traceback (most recent call last): ... KeyError If the output doesn't match, then a DocTestFailure is raised: >>> test = DocTestParser().get_doctest(''' ... >>> x = 1 ... >>> x ... 2 ... ''', {}, 'foo', 'foo.py', 0) >>> case = DocTestCase(test) >>> try: ... case.debug() ... except DocTestFailure as f: ... failure = f DocTestFailure objects provide access to the test: >>> failure.test is test True As well as to the example: >>> failure.example.want '2\n' and the actual output: >>> failure.got '1\n' Fr’