Closes #16155: fix a few errors in doctest output of the FAQ pages.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/faq/general.rst b/Doc/faq/general.rst
index 7ad949c..331e80c 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/general.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/general.rst
@@ -415,14 +415,25 @@ while they enter their program's source in another window.  If they can't
 remember the methods for a list, they can do something like this::
 
    >>> L = []
-   >>> dir(L)
-   ['append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove',
+   >>> dir(L) # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
+   ['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__',
+   '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__',
+   '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__iadd__',
+   '__imul__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__',
+   '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__',
+   '__repr__', '__reversed__', '__rmul__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__',
+   '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', 'append', 'clear',
+   'copy', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove',
    'reverse', 'sort']
+   >>> [d for d in dir(L) if '__' not in d]
+   ['append', 'clear', 'copy', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']
+
    >>> help(L.append)
    Help on built-in function append:
-
+   <BLANKLINE>
    append(...)
-       L.append(object) -- append object to end
+       L.append(object) -> None -- append object to end
+   <BLANKLINE>
    >>> L.append(1)
    >>> L
    [1]