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Mon May 31 23:15:16 EDT 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-May/045068.html

Tim Peters wrote:
> That's more what I had in mind, but if the marker is changed to something
> wordy instead of "a magic character", I don't think the dedent trick is of
> much value anymore:
> 
>      r"""
>      A different marker:
> 
>              >>> print 'a\n\nb'
>              a
>              <blank line>
>              b
>      """
> 
> Then when the expected output is (exactly) "<blank line>", doctest would
> accept "<blank line>", or a line with nothing other than whitespace, as a
> match.  I can't get upset by that bit of ambiguity.  

I had ruled this out because I assumed that any change I made had to 
maintain backward compatibility.  But if this (minor) incompatibility is 
acceptable, then let me know and I'll write up a patch to implement it.

-Edward

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