Can python doctest ignore some output lines?

Question

I\'d like to write a doctest like this:

\"\"\"
>>> print a.string()
          foo : a
          bar : b
         date : 

        

Answer 1

You can write tuples before and after your function (hack inspired by answer of Mark Horvath):

def foo():
    """
    >>> ();foo();() # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
    (...)
    """
    print "Hello world"
    return "Hello world"