doctest's ELLIPSIS

[Sébastien Boisgérault]

(Forwarded from Python bug tracker)

[ 1192554 ] doctest's ELLIPSIS and multiline statements

Tim Peters:
[...]
doctest has few syntax requirements, but the
inability to start an expected output block with "..." has
always been one of them, and is independent of the
ELLIPSIS gimmick.  I doubt this will change, in part because
the complications needed to "do something about it" are
probably pig ugly, in part because it's so rare a desire, and
in part because there are easy ways to work around it (like
arranging for the expected output to start with something
other than '...').