[issue9640] Improved doctest REPORT_*DIFFs with ELLIPSIS and/or NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE

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[issue9640] Improved doctest REPORT_*DIFFs with ELLIPSIS and/or NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE

Irit Katriel added the comment: The patch needs to be converted into a github PR. Trevor, are you interested in doing that? -- nosy: +iritkatriel ___ Python tracker ___

[issue9640] Improved doctest REPORT_*DIFFs with ELLIPSIS and/or NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE

New submission from W. Trevor King wk...@drexel.edu: I had been struggling to find the failure-causing mismatch in a doctest with lots of output. REPORT_UDIFF gave lots of false mismatches because I was also using NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE. Looking through the doctest.py source, I saw a comment

[issue9640] Improved doctest REPORT_*DIFFs with ELLIPSIS and/or NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE

W. Trevor King wk...@drexel.edu added the comment: Here's my patch, or pull from my Mercurial repository http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/code/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/python/rev/6638df20c1a4 -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18575/doctest_diff.patch