diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
index 057780d51f9ace..4f18af3f0ec693 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
@@ -340,9 +340,10 @@ def html2text(html):
Tailored for pydoc tests only.
"""
- return pydoc.replace(
- re.sub("<.*?>", "", html),
- " ", " ", ">", ">", "<", "<")
+ html = html.replace("
", "\n")
+ html = re.sub("<.*?>", "", html)
+ html = pydoc.replace(html, " ", " ", ">", ">", "<", "<")
+ return html
class PydocBaseTest(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -384,9 +385,12 @@ class PydocDocTest(unittest.TestCase):
def test_html_doc(self):
result, doc_loc = get_pydoc_html(pydoc_mod)
text_result = html2text(result)
- expected_lines = [line.strip() for line in html2text_of_expected if line]
- for line in expected_lines:
- self.assertIn(line, text_result)
+ text_lines = [line.strip() for line in text_result.splitlines()]
+ text_lines = [line for line in text_lines if line]
+ del text_lines[1]
+ expected_lines = html2text_of_expected.splitlines()
+ expected_lines = [line.strip() for line in expected_lines if line]
+ self.assertEqual(text_lines, expected_lines)
mod_file = inspect.getabsfile(pydoc_mod)
mod_url = urllib.parse.quote(mod_file)
self.assertIn(mod_url, result)