actual output into lines created spurious empty lines at the ends of
each.  Those matched, but the fancy diffs had surprising line counts (1
larger than expected), and tests kept having to slam <BLANKLINE> into the
expected output to account for this.  Using the splitlines() string method
with keepends=True instead accomplishes what was intended directly.

While a fancy diff can be confusing in the presence of ellipses, so far
I'm finding (2-0-0) that it's much more a major aid in narrowing down the
possibilities when an ellipsis-slinging test fails.  So we no longer
refuse to do a fancy diff just because of ellipses.

This isn't ideal; it's just better.

explanation, it's easier to push the remaining insufferably anal details
into a "fine print" section at the bottom.

rather than an expected output string.  This gives the
output_difference method access to more information, such as the
indentation of the example, which might be useful.

first failing example in each test.

Mac-specific modules.  Before all modules were compiled but would fail thanks
to a dependence on the code included when Python was built without the compiler
flag.

Closes bug #991962.

NDIFF_DIFF->REPORT_NDIFF.  This establishes the naming convention that
all reporting options should begin with "REPORT_" (since reporting
options are a different class from output comparison options; but they
are both set in optionflags).

  to be more consistent with report_failure()
- If `want` or `got` is empty, then print "Expected nothing\n" or
  "Got nothing\n" rather than "Expected:\n" or "Got:\n"
- Got rid of _tag_msg

deleted.

* Add comment bars segregating this code from the rest.
* Improve readability of the re pattern with indentation and comments on
  the same line.
* Replace the groupdict() and get() pair with a direct call to group()
  which does the same thing.

exception message, or None if no exception is expected); and moved
exception parsing from DocTestRunner to DocTestParser.  This is
architecturally cleaner, since it moves all parsing work to
DocTestParser; and it should make it easier for code outside
DocTestRunner (notably debugging code) to properly handle expected
exceptions.

AIX 5.1.

a traceback message.  I.e., examples that raise exceptions may no
longer generate pre-exception output.  This restores the behavior of
doctest in python 2.3.  The ability to check pre-exception output is
being removed because it makes the documentation simpler; and because
there are very few use cases for it.

Allows the lineno fixup code to remain simple and not have to deal with
multibyte codings.

* Add an assertion to that effect.
* Remove the XXX comment on the subject.

Will backport to 2.3.

Will backport to 2.3.

1.293, 1.298, and 1.300, which have tried to fix this for specific
platforms.

(Suggested by Neal Norwitz.)

This patch includes test cases and documentation updates, as well as NEWS file
updates.

This patch also updates the sre modules so that they don't import the string
module, breaking direct circular imports.

happen in 2.3, but nobody noticed it still was getting generated (the
warning was disabled by default).  OverflowWarning and
PyExc_OverflowWarning should be removed for 2.5, and left notes all over
saying so.