diff --git a/Doc/library/doctest.rst b/Doc/library/doctest.rst
index de9340c..6ffd2ab 100644
--- a/Doc/library/doctest.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/doctest.rst
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@
   blank line, put ``<BLANKLINE>`` in your doctest example each place a blank line
   is expected.
 
-  .. versionchanged:: 2.4
+  .. versionadded:: 2.4
      ``<BLANKLINE>`` was added; there was no way to use expected output containing
      empty lines in previous versions.
 
@@ -438,6 +438,9 @@
 The last three lines (starting with :exc:`ValueError`) are compared against the
 exception's type and detail, and the rest are ignored.
 
+.. versionchanged:: 2.4
+   Previous versions were unable to handle multi-line exception details.
+
 Best practice is to omit the traceback stack, unless it adds significant
 documentation value to the example.  So the last example is probably better as::
 
@@ -469,8 +472,9 @@
   with an alphanumeric is taken to be the start of the exception detail.  Of
   course this does the right thing for genuine tracebacks.
 
-* When the :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` doctest option is is specified,
-  everything following the leftmost colon is ignored.
+* When the :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` doctest option is specified,
+  everything following the leftmost colon and any module information in the
+  exception name is ignored.
 
 * The interactive shell omits the traceback header line for some
   :exc:`SyntaxError`\ s.  But doctest uses the traceback header line to
@@ -498,10 +502,6 @@
          ^
      SyntaxError: invalid syntax
 
-.. versionchanged:: 2.4
-   The ability to handle a multi-line exception detail, and the
-   :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` doctest option, were added.
-
 
 .. _doctest-options:
 
@@ -564,20 +564,38 @@
    exception raised is ``ValueError: 3*14``, but will fail, e.g., if
    :exc:`TypeError` is raised.
 
-   Note that a similar effect can be obtained using :const:`ELLIPSIS`, and
-   :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` may go away when Python releases prior to 2.4
-   become uninteresting.  Until then, :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` is the only
-   clear way to write a doctest that doesn't care about the exception detail yet
-   continues to pass under Python releases prior to 2.4 (doctest directives appear
-   to be comments to them).  For example, ::
+   It will also ignore the module name used in Python 3 doctest reports. Hence
+   both these variations will work regardless of whether the test is run under
+   Python 2.7 or Python 3.2 (or later versions):
+
+      >>> raise ValueError('message') #doctest: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
+      Traceback (most recent call last):
+      ValueError: message
+
+      >>> raise ValueError('message') #doctest: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
+      Traceback (most recent call last):
+      builtin.ValueError: message
+
+   Note that :const:`ELLIPSIS` can also be used to ignore the
+   details of the exception message, but such a test may still fail based
+   on whether or not the module details are printed as part of the
+   exception name. Using :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` and the details
+   from Python 2.3 is also the only clear way to write a doctest that doesn't
+   care about the exception detail yet continues to pass under Python 2.3 or
+   earlier (those releases do not support doctest directives and ignore them
+   as irrelevant comments). For example, ::
 
       >>> (1, 2)[3] = 'moo' #doctest: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
       Traceback (most recent call last):
         File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
       TypeError: object doesn't support item assignment
 
-   passes under Python 2.4 and Python 2.3.  The detail changed in 2.4, to say "does
-   not" instead of "doesn't".
+   passes under Python 2.3 and later Python versions, even though the detail
+   changed in Python 2.4 to say "does not" instead of "doesn't".
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+      :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` now also ignores any information
+      relating to the module containing the exception under test
 
 
 .. data:: SKIP
@@ -590,6 +608,8 @@
 
    The SKIP flag can also be used for temporarily "commenting out" examples.
 
+.. versionadded:: 2.5
+
 
 .. data:: COMPARISON_FLAGS
 
@@ -692,17 +712,13 @@
 functions that run doctests, establishing different defaults.  In such cases,
 disabling an option via ``-`` in a directive can be useful.
 
-.. versionchanged:: 2.4
-   Constants :const:`DONT_ACCEPT_BLANKLINE`, :const:`NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE`,
+.. versionadded:: 2.4
+   Doctest directives and the associated constants
+   :const:`DONT_ACCEPT_BLANKLINE`, :const:`NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE`,
    :const:`ELLIPSIS`, :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`, :const:`REPORT_UDIFF`,
    :const:`REPORT_CDIFF`, :const:`REPORT_NDIFF`,
    :const:`REPORT_ONLY_FIRST_FAILURE`, :const:`COMPARISON_FLAGS` and
-   :const:`REPORTING_FLAGS` were added; by default ``<BLANKLINE>`` in expected
-   output matches an empty line in actual output; and doctest directives were
-   added.
-
-.. versionchanged:: 2.5
-   Constant :const:`SKIP` was added.
+   :const:`REPORTING_FLAGS` were added.
 
 There's also a way to register new option flag names, although this isn't useful
 unless you intend to extend :mod:`doctest` internals via subclassing:
diff --git a/Lib/doctest.py b/Lib/doctest.py
index a9357b5..70d3359 100644
--- a/Lib/doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/doctest.py
@@ -1282,9 +1282,9 @@
 
                 # Another chance if they didn't care about the detail.
                 elif self.optionflags & IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL:
-                    m1 = re.match(r'[^:]*:', example.exc_msg)
-                    m2 = re.match(r'[^:]*:', exc_msg)
-                    if m1 and m2 and check(m1.group(0), m2.group(0),
+                    m1 = re.match(r'(?:[^:]*\.)?([^:]*:)', example.exc_msg)
+                    m2 = re.match(r'(?:[^:]*\.)?([^:]*:)', exc_msg)
+                    if m1 and m2 and check(m1.group(1), m2.group(1),
                                            self.optionflags):
                         outcome = SUCCESS
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_doctest.py b/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
index df65d7e..1051068 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
@@ -865,6 +865,77 @@
     >>> doctest.DocTestRunner(verbose=False).run(test)
     TestResults(failed=0, attempted=1)
 
+IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL also ignores difference in exception formatting
+between Python versions. For example, in Python 3.x, the module path of
+the exception is in the output, but this will fail under Python 2:
+
+    >>> def f(x):
+    ...     r'''
+    ...     >>> from httplib import HTTPException
+    ...     >>> raise HTTPException('message')
+    ...     Traceback (most recent call last):
+    ...     httplib.HTTPException: message
+    ...     '''
+    >>> test = doctest.DocTestFinder().find(f)[0]
+    >>> doctest.DocTestRunner(verbose=False).run(test)
+    ... # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
+    **********************************************************************
+    File ..., line 4, in f
+    Failed example:
+        raise HTTPException('message')
+    Expected:
+        Traceback (most recent call last):
+        httplib.HTTPException: message
+    Got:
+        Traceback (most recent call last):
+        ...
+        HTTPException: message
+    TestResults(failed=1, attempted=2)
+
+But in Python 2 the module path is not included, an therefore a test must look
+like the following test to succeed in Python 2. But that test will fail under
+Python 3.
+
+    >>> def f(x):
+    ...     r'''
+    ...     >>> from httplib import HTTPException
+    ...     >>> raise HTTPException('message')
+    ...     Traceback (most recent call last):
+    ...     HTTPException: message
+    ...     '''
+    >>> test = doctest.DocTestFinder().find(f)[0]
+    >>> doctest.DocTestRunner(verbose=False).run(test)
+    TestResults(failed=0, attempted=2)
+
+However, with IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL, the module name of the exception
+(if any) will be ignored:
+
+    >>> def f(x):
+    ...     r'''
+    ...     >>> from httplib import HTTPException
+    ...     >>> raise HTTPException('message') #doctest: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
+    ...     Traceback (most recent call last):
+    ...     HTTPException: message
+    ...     '''
+    >>> test = doctest.DocTestFinder().find(f)[0]
+    >>> doctest.DocTestRunner(verbose=False).run(test)
+    TestResults(failed=0, attempted=2)
+
+The module path will be completely ignored, so two different module paths will
+still pass if IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL is given. This is intentional, so it can
+be used when exceptions have changed module.
+
+    >>> def f(x):
+    ...     r'''
+    ...     >>> from httplib import HTTPException
+    ...     >>> raise HTTPException('message') #doctest: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
+    ...     Traceback (most recent call last):
+    ...     foo.bar.HTTPException: message
+    ...     '''
+    >>> test = doctest.DocTestFinder().find(f)[0]
+    >>> doctest.DocTestRunner(verbose=False).run(test)
+    TestResults(failed=0, attempted=2)
+
 But IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL does not allow a mismatch in the exception type:
 
     >>> def f(x):
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 162bf9b..0bb62ae 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -627,6 +627,7 @@
 John Redford
 Terry Reedy
 Steve Reeves
+Lennart Regebro
 Ofir Reichenberg
 Sean Reifschneider
 Michael P. Reilly
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 248d41b..30992e5 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #7490: to facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
+  suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
+  location of the raised exception.
+
 - Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline
   before the certificate footer.  Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.