diff -r 2fbba6d68b94 Doc/library/doctest.rst
--- a/Doc/library/doctest.rst	Tue Apr 01 10:17:08 2014 -0400
+++ b/Doc/library/doctest.rst	Tue Apr 01 19:14:19 2014 +0200
@@ -922,7 +922,8 @@
 .. function:: run_docstring_examples(f, globs, verbose=False, name="NoName", compileflags=None, optionflags=0)
 
    Test examples associated with object *f*; for example, *f* may be a module,
-   function, or class object.
+   function, or class object and return a list of
+   ``TestResults(failed, attempted)`` named tuples.
 
    A shallow copy of dictionary argument *globs* is used for the execution context.
 
@@ -938,6 +939,8 @@
 
    Optional argument *optionflags* works as for function :func:`testfile` above.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.5 return a list of ``TestResults(failed, attempted)``
+      named tuples.
 
 .. _doctest-unittest-api:
 
diff -r 2fbba6d68b94 Lib/doctest.py
--- a/Lib/doctest.py	Tue Apr 01 10:17:08 2014 -0400
+++ b/Lib/doctest.py	Tue Apr 01 19:14:19 2014 +0200
@@ -2097,8 +2097,12 @@
     # Find, parse, and run all tests in the given module.
     finder = DocTestFinder(verbose=verbose, recurse=False)
     runner = DocTestRunner(verbose=verbose, optionflags=optionflags)
+    results = []
     for test in finder.find(f, name, globs=globs):
-        runner.run(test, compileflags=compileflags)
+        res = runner.run(test, compileflags=compileflags)
+        results.append(res)
+    return results
+
 
 ######################################################################
 ## 7. Unittest Support