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diff --git a/Lib/doctest.py b/Lib/doctest.py
index c033b0d..f7b29d3 100644
--- a/Lib/doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/doctest.py
@@ -1468,7 +1468,7 @@ class OutputChecker:
# This flag causes doctest to ignore any differences in the
# contents of whitespace strings. Note that this can be used
# in conjunction with the ELLISPIS flag.
- if (optionflags & NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE):
+ if optionflags & NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE:
got = ' '.join(got.split())
want = ' '.join(want.split())
if got == want:
@@ -1477,10 +1477,14 @@ class OutputChecker:
# The ELLIPSIS flag says to let the sequence "..." in `want`
# match any substring in `got`. We implement this by
# transforming `want` into a regular expression.
- if (optionflags & ELLIPSIS):
+ if optionflags & ELLIPSIS:
+ # Remove \n from ...\n, else the newline will be required,
+ # and (for example) ... on a line by itself can't match
+ # nothing gracefully.
+ want_re = want.replace(ELLIPSIS_MARKER + '\n', ELLIPSIS_MARKER)
# Escape any special regexp characters
- want_re = re.escape(want)
- # Replace ellipsis markers ('...') with .*
+ want_re = re.escape(want_re)
+ # Replace escaped ellipsis markers ('\.\.\.') with .*
want_re = want_re.replace(re.escape(ELLIPSIS_MARKER), '.*')
# Require that it matches the entire string; and set the
# re.DOTALL flag (with '(?s)').