[Python-Dev] Unittest/doctest formatting differences in 2.7a1?

[Paul Moore]

2009/12/9 Lennart Regebro <lregebro at jarn.com>:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 18:45, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
>> It's about time doctest got another run of development anyway.  I can
>> imagine a couple features that might help:
>> * Already in there, but sometimes hard to enable, is ellipsis.  Can you
>> already do this?
>>
>>     >>> throw_an_exception()
>>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>>         ...
>>     DesiredException: ...
>
> I think so, but what you need is:
>
>>     >>> throw_an_exception()
>>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>>         ...
>>    ...DesiredException: ...

No you don't. From the manual:

"""
When the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL doctest option is is specified,
everything following the leftmost colon is ignored.
"""

So just use #doctest: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL

Paul.