fixed a whole bunch of doctests

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/testing/noseclasses.py b/numpy/testing/noseclasses.py
index 05d244083..aae7c5da4 100644
--- a/numpy/testing/noseclasses.py
+++ b/numpy/testing/noseclasses.py
@@ -148,6 +148,21 @@ class NumpyOutputChecker(doctest.OutputChecker):
         if not ret:
             if "#random" in want:
                 return True
+            
+            # it would be useful to normalize endianness so that
+            # bigendian machines don't fail all the tests (and there are
+            # actually some bigendian examples in the doctests). Let's try
+            # making them all little endian
+            got = got.replace("'>","'<")
+            want= want.replace("'>","'<")
+
+            # try to normalize out 32 and 64 bit default int sizes
+            for sz in [4,8]:
+                got = got.replace("'<i%d'"%sz,"int")
+                want= want.replace("'<i%d'"%sz,"int")
+
+            ret = doctest.OutputChecker.check_output(self, want,
+                    got, optionflags)
 
         return ret
 
diff --git a/numpy/testing/utils.py b/numpy/testing/utils.py
index 87ca389f7..abb2956a1 100644
--- a/numpy/testing/utils.py
+++ b/numpy/testing/utils.py
@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ def assert_almost_equal(actual,desired,decimal=7,err_msg='',verbose=True):
 
     Examples
     --------
+    >>> import numpy.testing as npt
     >>> npt.assert_almost_equal(2.3333333333333, 2.33333334)
     >>> npt.assert_almost_equal(2.3333333333333, 2.33333334, decimal=10)
     ...