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@@ -321,9 +321,8 @@ The sections of the docstring are:
$ nosetests --with-doctest example.py
- To improve readability, do not use doctest-specific markup like
- ``<BLANKLINE>`` or ``#doctest: +SKIP``, even if this causes the
- example to fail.
+ It is not necessary to use the doctest markup ``<BLANKLINE>`` to
+ indicate empty lines in the output.
The examples may assume that ``import numpy as np`` is executed before
the example code in *numpy*, and ``import scipy as sp`` in *scipy*.