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DOC: Validation errors on doctests with output too long for a single line #27308

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RE: PR #27280

Multiple docstring tests are failing because of pretty whitespace formatting of the expected output. Here is an example from read_json() in pandas/io/json/_json.py:500

Encoding/decoding a Dataframe using ``'split'`` formatted JSON:

>>> df.to_json(orient='split')
'{"columns":["col 1","col 2"],
  "index":["row 1","row 2"],
  "data":[["a","b"],["c","d"]]}'

Running the validation script results in the following error:

Line 153, in pandas.read_json
Failed example:
    df.to_json(orient='split')
Expected:
    '{"columns":["col 1","col 2"],
      "index":["row 1","row 2"],
      "data":[["a","b"],["c","d"]]}'
Got:
    '{"columns":["col 1","col 2"],"index":["row 1","row 2"],"data":[["a","b"],["c","d"]]}'

There is another similarly failing example in this function's doctests. Series.to_json has similar failures as well.

The +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE directive does not help and neither do ellipses. Removing the whitespace does cure the failures, but it looks nasty.

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