Gave _ellipsis_match() an attractive new leading underscore.
diff --git a/Lib/doctest.py b/Lib/doctest.py
index 311469f..6e6661d 100644
--- a/Lib/doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/doctest.py
@@ -390,10 +390,10 @@
del self.softspace
# Worst-case linear-time ellipsis matching.
-def ellipsis_match(want, got):
+def _ellipsis_match(want, got):
"""
Essentially the only subtle case:
- >>> ellipsis_match('aa...aa', 'aaa')
+ >>> _ellipsis_match('aa...aa', 'aaa')
False
"""
if ELLIPSIS_MARKER not in want:
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@
if startpos > endpos:
# Exact end matches required more characters than we have, as in
- # ellipsis_match('aa...aa', 'aaa')
+ # _ellipsis_match('aa...aa', 'aaa')
return False
# For the rest, we only need to find the leftmost non-overlapping
@@ -1558,7 +1558,7 @@
# The ELLIPSIS flag says to let the sequence "..." in `want`
# match any substring in `got`.
if optionflags & ELLIPSIS:
- if ellipsis_match(want, got):
+ if _ellipsis_match(want, got):
return True
# We didn't find any match; return false.