How to insert trailing spaces in a doctest, so that it doesn't fail even when actual and expected result look the same?

I found a solution, using the normalize white space flag

put it either in the doctest as

    >>> print new_data_variable # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE

or when calling the doctest

doctest.testmod( optionflags= doctest.NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE )

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