E _pytest.pathlib.ImportPathMismatchError

• When I test doctest in my own package, if I use pytest --doctest-modules, then it will raise this error. But If I do the doctest on each individual file, it will pass. I think the doctests is ok, But i can not avoid this error.
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• 6.2.5
• minimal example if possible

[and3rson]

I can reproduce this too whenever there are two modules with the same name in different packages. For example:

$ ls -R
./a:
foo.py

./b:
foo.py

$ pytest --doctest-modules .
================================================================ test session starts ================================================================
platform linux -- Python 3.10.4, pytest-7.1.2, pluggy-1.0.0
rootdir: /home/anderson/src/tp1
collected 0 items / 1 error

====================================================================== ERRORS =======================================================================
_____________________________________________________________ ERROR collecting b/foo.py _____________________________________________________________
.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/_pytest/runner.py:338: in from_call
    result: Optional[TResult] = func()
.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/_pytest/runner.py:369: in <lambda>
    call = CallInfo.from_call(lambda: list(collector.collect()), "collect")
.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/_pytest/doctest.py:545: in collect
    module = import_path(self.path, root=self.config.rootpath)
.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/_pytest/pathlib.py:556: in import_path
    raise ImportPathMismatchError(module_name, module_file, path)
E   _pytest.pathlib.ImportPathMismatchError: ('foo', '/home/anderson/src/tp1/a/foo.py', PosixPath('/home/anderson/src/tp1/b/foo.py'))
============================================================== short test summary info ==============================================================
ERROR b/foo.py - _pytest.pathlib.ImportPathMismatchError: ('foo', '/home/anderson/src/tp1/a/foo.py', PosixPath('/home/anderson/src/tp1/b/foo.py'))
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Interrupted: 1 error during collection !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
================================================================= 1 error in 0.07s ==================================================================

Edit: I’ve found a temporary fix here https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/2042#issuecomment-429289164 (PY_IGNORE_IMPORTMISMATCH=1 env var.)

[BinLiang2021]

And the individual doctest example