Use Sphinx doctest with :Example:
Solution 1:
Sphinx+doctest is not importing the module. You can either help him in the docstring:
:Example:
>>> from mymodule import myfunc
>>> myfunc(3, 'lol')
'lollollol'
or add this in conf.py
:
doctest_global_setup = '''
#if required, modif sys.path:
import sys
sys.path.append('../directory_containing_mymodule/')
from mymodule import *
'''
cf. https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/extensions/doctest.html
I'll be interested to hear if there are simpler answers.
Solution 2:
On my terminal and outside Sphinx, I have to left align "lollollol" and use simple quotes in order to successfully run doctest:
:Example:
>>> num = 3
>>> mystring = "lol"
>>> myfunc(num, mystring)
'lollollol'