Change doctest runner's flags

[pytestbot]

Originally reported by: Aleks Bunin (BitBucket: b-enlnt, GitHub: b-enlnt)

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py.test does not provide hooks to change doctest runner's option flags. We worked around this problem by patching the runner as shown below.

#!diff

--- a/_pytest/doctest.py 2013-06-24 19:07:08.000000000 -0400
+++ b/_pytest/doctest.py 2013-07-08 15:44:49.445935070 -0400
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
         fixture_request = FixtureRequest(self)
         failed, tot = doctest.testfile(
             str(self.fspath), module_relative=False,
-            optionflags=doctest.ELLIPSIS,
+            optionflags=doctest.ELLIPSIS|doctest.NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE,
             extraglobs=dict(getfixture=fixture_request.getfuncargvalue),
             raise_on_error=True, verbose=0)

@@ -105,4 +105,4 @@
         failed, tot = doctest.testmod(
             module, raise_on_error=True, verbose=0,
             extraglobs=dict(getfixture=fixture_request.getfuncargvalue),
-            optionflags=doctest.ELLIPSIS)
+            optionflags=doctest.ELLIPSIS|doctest.NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE)

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/344

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Closing as stalled