Changed the doctest_encoding option to an ini option.

Parametrized the tests for it.

_pytest/doctest.py

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ DOCTEST_REPORT_CHOICES = (
 def pytest_addoption(parser):
     parser.addini('doctest_optionflags', 'option flags for doctests',
         type="args", default=["ELLIPSIS"])
+    parser.addini("doctest_encoding", 'encoding used for doctest files', default="utf-8")
     group = parser.getgroup("collect")
     group.addoption("--doctest-modules",
         action="store_true", default=False,
@@ -43,10 +44,6 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser):
         action="store_true", default=False,
         help="ignore doctest ImportErrors",
         dest="doctest_ignore_import_errors")
-    group.addoption("--doctest-encoding",
-        type=str.lower, default="utf-8",
-        help="choose the encoding to use for doctest files",
-        dest="doctestencoding")
 
 
 def pytest_collect_file(path, parent):
@@ -166,7 +163,6 @@ def get_optionflags(parent):
         flag_acc |= flag_lookup_table[flag]
     return flag_acc
 
-
 class DoctestTextfile(pytest.Module):
     obj = None
 
@@ -175,7 +171,8 @@ class DoctestTextfile(pytest.Module):
 
         # inspired by doctest.testfile; ideally we would use it directly,
         # but it doesn't support passing a custom checker
-        text = self.fspath.read_text(self.config.getoption("doctestencoding"))
+        encoding = self.config.getini("doctest_encoding")
+        text = self.fspath.read_text(encoding)
         filename = str(self.fspath)
         name = self.fspath.basename
         globs = {'__name__': '__main__'}

testing/test_doctest.py

@@ -129,48 +129,29 @@ class TestDoctests:
             '*1 passed*',
         ])
 
-    def test_encoding_ascii(self, testdir):
-        """Test support for --doctest-encoding option.
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        '   test_string,    encoding',
+        [
+            (u'foo',         'ascii'),
+            (u'öäü',         'latin1'),
+            (u'öäü',         'utf-8')
+        ]
+    )
+    def test_encoding(self, testdir, test_string, encoding):
+        """Test support for doctest_encoding ini option.
         """
-        testdir._makefile(".txt", ["""
-            >>> 1
-            1
-        """], {}, encoding='ascii')
-
-        result = testdir.runpytest("--doctest-encoding=ascii")
-
-        result.stdout.fnmatch_lines([
-            '*1 passed*',
-        ])
-
-    def test_encoding_latin1(self, testdir):
-        """Test support for --doctest-encoding option.
-        """
-        testdir._makefile(".txt", [u"""
-            >>> len(u'üäö')
-            3
-        """], {}, encoding='latin1')
-
-        result = testdir.runpytest("--doctest-encoding=latin1")
-
-        result.stdout.fnmatch_lines([
-            '*1 passed*',
-        ])
-
-    def test_encoding_utf8(self, testdir):
-        """Test support for --doctest-encoding option.
-        """
-        testdir.maketxtfile(u"""
-            >>> len(u'üäö')
-            3
-        """)
+        testdir.makeini("""
+            [pytest]
+            doctest_encoding={0}
+        """.format(encoding))
+        doctest = u"""
+            >>> u"{}"
+            {}
+        """.format(test_string, repr(test_string))
+        testdir._makefile(".txt", [doctest], {}, encoding=encoding)
 
         result = testdir.runpytest()
-        result.stdout.fnmatch_lines([
-            '*1 passed*',
-        ])
 
-        result = testdir.runpytest("--doctest-encoding=utf-8")
         result.stdout.fnmatch_lines([
             '*1 passed*',
         ])