On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 07:17:26PM -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:
Docstring directives might be considered for points to copy or not copy. An example is # doctest: +ELLIPSIS, +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
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For binary options, '+' and '-' prefixes are much more compact than '=True' and '=False' suffixes. This will be more important with multiple directives in one comment.
I'd just like to strongly +1 Terry's comments here.