diff --git a/Doc/howto/functional.rst b/Doc/howto/functional.rst
index 8eadb01..ebbb229 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/functional.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/functional.rst
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@
 
     >>> L = [1,2,3]
     >>> it = iter(L)
-    >>> it
+    >>> it  #doctest: +ELLIPSIS
     <...iterator object at ...>
     >>> it.__next__()  # same as next(it)
     1
@@ -267,15 +267,11 @@
 iterator.
 
 Calling :func:`iter` on a dictionary returns an iterator that will loop over the
-dictionary's keys:
-
-.. not a doctest since dict ordering varies across Pythons
-
-::
+dictionary's keys::
 
     >>> m = {'Jan': 1, 'Feb': 2, 'Mar': 3, 'Apr': 4, 'May': 5, 'Jun': 6,
     ...      'Jul': 7, 'Aug': 8, 'Sep': 9, 'Oct': 10, 'Nov': 11, 'Dec': 12}
-    >>> for key in m:
+    >>> for key in m:  #doctest: +SKIP
     ...     print(key, m[key])
     Mar 3
     Feb 2
@@ -410,12 +406,9 @@
 lengths of all the sequences.  If you have two lists of length 3, the output
 list is 9 elements long:
 
-.. doctest::
-    :options: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
-
     >>> seq1 = 'abc'
     >>> seq2 = (1,2,3)
-    >>> [(x, y) for x in seq1 for y in seq2]
+    >>> [(x, y) for x in seq1 for y in seq2]  #doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
     [('a', 1), ('a', 2), ('a', 3),
      ('b', 1), ('b', 2), ('b', 3),
      ('c', 1), ('c', 2), ('c', 3)]
@@ -448,11 +441,9 @@
 
 Here's the simplest example of a generator function:
 
-.. testcode::
-
-    def generate_ints(N):
-        for i in range(N):
-            yield i
+    >>> def generate_ints(N):
+    ...    for i in range(N):
+    ...        yield i
 
 Any function containing a :keyword:`yield` keyword is a generator function;
 this is detected by Python's :term:`bytecode` compiler which compiles the
@@ -470,7 +461,7 @@
 Here's a sample usage of the ``generate_ints()`` generator:
 
     >>> gen = generate_ints(3)
-    >>> gen
+    >>> gen  #doctest: +ELLIPSIS
     <generator object generate_ints at ...>
     >>> next(gen)
     0
@@ -575,16 +566,16 @@
 
 And here's an example of changing the counter:
 
-    >>> it = counter(10)
-    >>> next(it)
+    >>> it = counter(10)  #doctest: +SKIP
+    >>> next(it)  #doctest: +SKIP
     0
-    >>> next(it)
+    >>> next(it)  #doctest: +SKIP
     1
-    >>> it.send(8)
+    >>> it.send(8)  #doctest: +SKIP
     8
-    >>> next(it)
+    >>> next(it)  #doctest: +SKIP
     9
-    >>> next(it)
+    >>> next(it)  #doctest: +SKIP
     Traceback (most recent call last):
       File "t.py", line 15, in ?
         it.next()
@@ -687,11 +678,11 @@
     >>> import random
     >>> # Generate 8 random numbers between [0, 10000)
     >>> rand_list = random.sample(range(10000), 8)
-    >>> rand_list
+    >>> rand_list  #doctest: +SKIP
     [769, 7953, 9828, 6431, 8442, 9878, 6213, 2207]
-    >>> sorted(rand_list)
+    >>> sorted(rand_list)  #doctest: +SKIP
     [769, 2207, 6213, 6431, 7953, 8442, 9828, 9878]
-    >>> sorted(rand_list, reverse=True)
+    >>> sorted(rand_list, reverse=True)  #doctest: +SKIP
     [9878, 9828, 8442, 7953, 6431, 6213, 2207, 769]
 
 (For a more detailed discussion of sorting, see the :ref:`sortinghowto`.)