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diff --git a/Doc/library/doctest.rst b/Doc/library/doctest.rst index 131206d056..15b12f7aa7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/doctest.rst +++ b/Doc/library/doctest.rst @@ -510,9 +510,9 @@ Option Flags A number of option flags control various aspects of doctest's behavior. Symbolic names for the flags are supplied as module constants, which can be -or'ed together and passed to various functions. The names can also be used in -:ref:`doctest directives <doctest-directives>`, and may be passed to the -doctest command line interface via the ``-o`` option. +:ref:`bitwise ORed <bitwise>` together and passed to various functions. +The names can also be used in :ref:`doctest directives <doctest-directives>`, +and may be passed to the doctest command line interface via the ``-o`` option. .. versionadded:: 3.4 The ``-o`` command line option. @@ -877,8 +877,9 @@ and :ref:`doctest-simple-testfile`. nothing at the end. In verbose mode, the summary is detailed, else the summary is very brief (in fact, empty if all tests passed). - Optional argument *optionflags* (default value 0) takes the bitwise-or of - option flags. See section :ref:`doctest-options`. + Optional argument *optionflags* (default value 0) takes the + :ref:`bitwise OR <bitwise>` of option flags. + See section :ref:`doctest-options`. Optional argument *raise_on_error* defaults to false. If true, an exception is raised upon the first failure or unexpected exception in an example. This @@ -1098,18 +1099,19 @@ reporting flags specific to :mod:`unittest` support, via this function: Set the :mod:`doctest` reporting flags to use. - Argument *flags* takes the bitwise-or of option flags. See section - :ref:`doctest-options`. Only "reporting flags" can be used. + Argument *flags* takes the :ref:`bitwise OR <bitwise>` of option flags. See + section :ref:`doctest-options`. Only "reporting flags" can be used. This is a module-global setting, and affects all future doctests run by module :mod:`unittest`: the :meth:`runTest` method of :class:`DocTestCase` looks at the option flags specified for the test case when the :class:`DocTestCase` instance was constructed. If no reporting flags were specified (which is the typical and expected case), :mod:`doctest`'s :mod:`unittest` reporting flags are - or'ed into the option flags, and the option flags so augmented are passed to the - :class:`DocTestRunner` instance created to run the doctest. If any reporting - flags were specified when the :class:`DocTestCase` instance was constructed, - :mod:`doctest`'s :mod:`unittest` reporting flags are ignored. + :ref:`bitwise ORed <bitwise>` into the option flags, and the option flags + so augmented are passed to the :class:`DocTestRunner` instance created to + run the doctest. If any reporting flags were specified when the + :class:`DocTestCase` instance was constructed, :mod:`doctest`'s + :mod:`unittest` reporting flags are ignored. The value of the :mod:`unittest` reporting flags in effect before the function was called is returned by the function. |