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This seems to be resolved so I'll close this issue. Feel free to post / reopen if you disagree.

Just for reference, both pytest and the standard library doctest runner allow running setup code: python @pytest.fixture(autouse=True) def custom_function(doctest_namespace): # the name of the function does not matter # add setup code here ... The official way to call the builtin doctest runner seems to be to add a if __name__ == "__main__" with a call to doctest.testmod() and to then call the module using either python <filename>.py or python -m <filename>. All code before the call to testmod can be used to set up the environment of the doctest.