Option Flags and Directives
Explore how to use option flags and directives in Python's doctest module to create flexible, self-testing docstrings. Understand the ELLIPSIS flag to simplify tests by ignoring parts of output, enabling robust and maintainable code validation through documentation.
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The doctest module comes with several option flags that we can use to
control doctest's behavior. There are quite a few of them, so we will only look at a couple of examples of one flag to show how we might use them.
One of the easiest ways to use an option flag is with a directive. A
doctest directive is a special Python comment that follows an ...