[docs] Bug in doctest documentation
Sandro Tosi
sandro.tosi at gmail.com
Sun Aug 12 09:55:39 CEST 2012
Hello Scott,
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Scott Mancuso <mathprodigy20 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is an issue with the documentation of directives found at
> http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html#option-flags-and-directives
> Quite a few examples of how to use the directives are included.
> Unfortunately, the actually directives aren't visible in the code examples
> given. For example, this:
>
> >>> print 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]
>
> is rendered as
>
>>>> print range(20)
> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
> 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]
Yes, this is a known problem of the tools we're using to highlight the
code in the Python documentation, and we're already working on it to
fix it asap - thanks for your report.
Regards,
--
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