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authorSanyam Khurana <8039608+CuriousLearner@users.noreply.github.com>2018-10-21 07:22:02 (GMT)
committerNick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>2018-10-21 07:22:02 (GMT)
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bpo-8525: help() on a type now shows builtin subclasses (GH-5066)
For builtin types with builtin subclasses, help() on the type now shows up to 4 of the subclasses. This partially replaces the exception hierarchy information previously displayed in Python 2.7.
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+help() on a type now displays builtin subclasses. This is intended primarily
+to help with notification of more specific exception subclasses.
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+Patch by Sanyam Khurana.