ps2, IDLE, and doctest

[Paul M]

Pythoneers,

[I hope this is the appropriate forum to discuss this now that idlefork 
has been folded back into the main python distn]

IDLE doesn't use the ps2 prompt ("..." in the command line interpreter) 
because it supports multiline editing.  This issue has been discussed 
before, for example see Guido's explanation in this thread:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2002-February/000863.html

Unfortunately the lack of the ps2 prompt makes IDLE inappropriate for 
writing multi-line routines that can be used in doctest readable docstrings:

As an example, doctest want's something like this:

 >>> for each in cuppertri:
...     if each >= 0.0:
...             ct += 1
...
 >>>

Whereas IDLE gives this:

 >>> for each in cuppertri:
	if each >= 0.0:
		ct += 1

		
 >>>

Doctest kept failing on text I cut-and-paosted from IDLE and it took me 
a good 15 minutes to figure out what was going on.

Has anybody else run into this problem?  The "solution" of course is to 
revert to the command line when I'm including examples in docstrings, 
but then you lose all the convenience of the IDLE environment....

--Paul