Doctest documentation?

[Vincent Vande Vyvre]

On 20/05/12 17:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Is this a bug in the doctest documentation, or is my browser broken?
>
> On this page:
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html#option-flags-and-directives
>
> scroll down to the examples showing the doctest directives, e.g:
>
>     [quote]
>     For example, this test passes:
>
>     >>> print range(20) 
>     [0,   1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,
>     10,  11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]
>
> Likewise for the Python 3 version:
>
> http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/doctest.html
>
> Seems to me that the actual directives are missing. I can't see them in 
> the raw HTML either. Can anyone else confirm that they are missing?
>
>
No, this paragraph exists.

Copied from source of  http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/doctest.html:

An example's doctest directives modify doctest's behavior for that single
example.  Use ``+`` to enable the named behavior, or ``-`` to disable it.

For example, this test passes::

   >>> print(list(range(20))) #doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
   [0,   1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,
   10,  11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]



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