gh-122129: Improve support of method descriptors and wrappers in the help title (GH-122157)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 768c3dc..d376592 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1682,6 +1682,13 @@ def describe(thing):
         return 'function ' + thing.__name__
     if inspect.ismethod(thing):
         return 'method ' + thing.__name__
+    if inspect.ismethodwrapper(thing):
+        return 'method wrapper ' + thing.__name__
+    if inspect.ismethoddescriptor(thing):
+        try:
+            return 'method descriptor ' + thing.__name__
+        except AttributeError:
+            pass
     return type(thing).__name__
 
 def locate(path, forceload=0):