Tim Peters <t...@python.org> added the comment: Jason, an ellipsis will match an empty string. But if your expected output is:
""" x... abcd ... """ you're asking for output that: - starts with "x" - followed by 0 or more of anything - FOLLOWED BY A NEWLINE (I think you're overlooking this part) - followed by "abcd" and a newline - followed by 0 or more of anything - followed by (and ending) with a newline So, e.g., "xabcd\n" doesn't match - not because of the ellipsis, but because of the newline following the first ellipsis. You can repair that by changing the expected output like so: """ x...abcd ... """ This still requires that "abcd" is _followed_ by a newline, but puts no constraints on what appears before it. In your specific context, it seems you want to say that your expected line has to appear _as_ its own line in your output, so that it must appear either at the start of the output _or_ immediately following a newline. Neither ellipses nor a simple string search is sufficient to capture that notion. Fancier code can do it, or a regexp search, or, e.g., what_i_want_without_the_trailing_newline in output.splitlines() ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32509> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
