Remove support for doctests

rest_framework/renderers.py

@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ Django REST framework also provides HTML and PlainText renderers that help self-
 by serializing the output along with documentation regarding the View, output status and headers,
 and providing forms and links depending on the allowed methods, renderers and parsers on the View.
 """
-import copy
 import string
 from django import forms
 from django.template import RequestContext, loader
 from django.utils import simplejson as json
 from rest_framework.compat import yaml
 from rest_framework.settings import api_settings
+from rest_framework.request import clone_request
 from rest_framework.utils import dict2xml
 from rest_framework.utils import encoders
 from rest_framework.utils.breadcrumbs import get_breadcrumbs
@@ -227,12 +227,9 @@ class DocumentingHTMLRenderer(BaseRenderer):
         if not api_settings.FORM_METHOD_OVERRIDE:
             return  # Cannot use form overloading
 
-        temp = request._method
-        request._method = method.upper()
+        request = clone_request(request, method)
         if not view.has_permission(request):
-            request._method = temp
             return  # Don't have permission
-        request._method = temp
 
         if method == 'DELETE' or method == 'OPTIONS':
             return True  # Don't actually need to return a form

rest_framework/request.py

@@ -28,6 +28,22 @@ def _hasattr(obj, name):
     return not getattr(obj, name) is Empty
 
 
+def clone_request(request, method):
+    """
+    Internal helper method to clone a request, replacing with a different
+    HTTP method.  Used for checking permissions against other methods.
+    """
+    ret = Request(request._request,
+                  request.parser_classes,
+                  request.authentication_classes)
+    ret._data = request._data
+    ret._files = request._files
+    ret._content_type = request._content_type
+    ret._stream = request._stream
+    ret._method = method
+    return ret
+
+
 class Request(object):
     """
     Wrapper allowing to enhance a standard `HttpRequest` instance.

rest_framework/tests/__init__.py

@@ -7,6 +7,4 @@ modules = [filename.rsplit('.', 1)[0]
 __test__ = dict()
 
 for module in modules:
-    exec("from rest_framework.tests.%s import __doc__ as module_doc" % module)
     exec("from rest_framework.tests.%s import *" % module)
-    __test__[module] = module_doc or ""