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

I ended up with this workaround.

def foo():
    """
    >>> foo()  # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE, +ELLIPSIS
    
    ... world
    """
    print("hello world")

It at least works without non-whitespace characters or other workarounds.