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gh-137574: Add Support For Special Names in `help` - #137966

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gh-137574: Add Support For Special Names in `help`#137966
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Commits on Aug 19, 2025
- first steps: don't show help output for dunders we've grabbed from builtins
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- better help for built-in help function
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- add __main__ and DUNDERMETHODS to help
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- try to associate all dunder methods with relevant pages from datamodel.rst
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- show help for, e.g., __import__
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- bugfix for sequence-related dunders
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- list 'specialnames' as a special topic
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- add help for __name__
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- change title of added reference
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- faster check for dunder name
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- suggest online help as well if we can't find something
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- fix bad reference (SPECIALNAMES doesn't exist)
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- change help(help) output
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- clarify message when an entry is not found
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- update test cases for new message
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- revert changes to help(help); those should probably be a separate PR
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- new test cases for help() about dunder methods
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- remove extra whitespace
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- __matmul__ shouldn't reference @ because of where help('@') currently goes
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- fixes for missing dunder doctest
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- attempt to fix failing test case on windows
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- add news blurb
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Commits on Aug 20, 2025
- roll back changes to pydoc_data not relevant to the new topics
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Commits on Oct 12, 2026
- merge
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- fixes for checking whether a string should look up special dunder help
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- add sphinx reference to news entry
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- fix typo in __set_name__ dunder
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- add class-customization to pydoc topics
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- what's new entry
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- add symbols to html help from pydoc
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- remove duplicate customization label from Doc/using/windows.rst
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Commits on Oct 13, 2026
- Merge branch 'main' into pydoc_dunders
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- add more built-in modules to SKIP_DUNDER_HELP
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- also unquote url in error page
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Commits on Oct 14, 2026
- merge
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