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doctest options NUMBER and ELLIPSIS seem incompatible
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The NUMBER option supplied by pytest (https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/doctest.html#using-doctest-options) seems incompatible with ELLIPSIS from doctest. That is, I can't seem to shorten outputs in non-exception output with ... while having any float outputs respect rounding.
I have a minimal example with virtual environment at https://github.com/wade-cheng/pytest-doctest-bug. Hopefully this makes reproduction easy.
pytest is the only dependency. uv tree shows
pytest-doctest-bug v0.1.0
└── pytest v8.3.5
├── exceptiongroup v1.2.2
├── iniconfig v2.1.0
├── packaging v24.2
├── pluggy v1.5.0
└── tomli v2.2.1
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Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
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GNOME Version: 42.9
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Research direction
Start with the minimal reproduction at https://github.com/wade-cheng/pytest-doctest-bug and the pytest doctest options documentation linked in the issue. Reproduce the interaction between NUMBER and ELLIPSIS, then trace the relevant doctest handling; done means both options work together for shortened non-exception output and rounded floats.
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