Namespace testcase fails to pass

In a fresh checkout of pydap in a clean venv, the namespace testcase does not pass:

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FAIL: Test the namespace.
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/gvaillan/.virtualenvs/pydap/src/pydap/src/pydap/tests/test_pydap.py", line 20, in test_namespace
    pydap.__doc__, "Declare the namespace ``pydap`` here.")
AssertionError: None != 'Declare the namespace ``pydap`` here.'

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Ran 311 tests in 0.582s

Indeed, if I manually run:

>>> import pydap
>>> print(pydap.__doc__)
None

I am wondering whether this test case is actually useful, beyond increasing the code coverage?

[laliberte]

I’ve tried a few things but can’t seem to make it work. Should we simply remove this line? It does not seem to be testing much after all…

[ghisvail]

@jameshiebert I can reproduce the problem when using python3 -m venv on Debian Stretch (Python 3.5.2). This issue is still alive I am afraid.