Doh ! Obviously ... too bad. I guess that I could set doctest.ELLIPSIS_MARKER to "[...]" to distinguish the two usages of "...". (The "..." used for multiline statements is hard-coded into a regular expression pattern).
But it feels too hackish, ELLIPSIS_MATKER being not described in the docs ... Well, anyway, thanks for your insight. S.B. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list