[Docutils-develop] [docutils:patches] #211 Doctest nodes have incorrect `line` field

- **status**: open-accepted --> closed-accepted
- **Comment**:

The patch is in Docutils 0.22 released 2025-07-29.
Thanks again.



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**[patches:#211] Doctest nodes have incorrect `line` field **

**Status:** closed-accepted
**Group:** None
**Created:** Thu Sep 12, 2024 09:39 AM UTC by Hood Chatham
**Last Updated:** Mon Nov 11, 2024 05:40 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


For most nodes, `node.line` refers to the source line that the node started on. However, doctest nodes report the end line. 

This can be fixed with the following patch:
```patch
--- a/docutils/docutils/parsers/rst/states.py
+++ b/docutils/docutils/parsers/rst/states.py
@@ -1587,11 +1587,14 @@ def parse_option_marker(self, match):
         return optlist
 
     def doctest(self, match, context, next_state):
+        line = self.document.current_line
         data = '\n'.join(self.state_machine.get_text_block())
         # TODO: prepend class value ['pycon'] (Python Console)
         # parse with `directives.body.CodeBlock` (returns literal-block
         # with class "code" and syntax highlight markup).
-        self.parent += nodes.doctest_block(data, data)
+        n = nodes.doctest_block(data, data)
+        n.line = line
+        self.parent += n
         return [], next_state, []
 
     def line_block(self, match, context, next_state):
```



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