Can I have an ellipsis at the beginning of the line in a Python doctest?

Question

Python doctests are cool. Let me start with a simple example:

def foo():
  \"\"\"
  >>> foo()
  hello world
  \"\"\"
  print \"hello world\"
         


        

Answer 1

Here is a somewhat simpler way to do this: Just print a dummy string before the line that begins with the unknown output.

Like this:

def foo():
  """
  >>> print 'ignore'; foo() # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
  ignore... world
  """
  print "hello world"