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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2020-04-18 14:13:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-04-18 14:13:21 (GMT) |
| commit | 7e64414f57b70dc5bc0ab19a3162a0735f9bfabf (patch) | |
| tree | 89751f89c42a08b7335098b470ba6ddc395b184c /Misc | |
| parent | c606624af8d4cb3b4a052fb263bb983b3f87585b (diff) | |
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bpo-40257: Improve help for the typing module (GH-19546)
* Show docstring for special forms.
* Show docstring for special generic aliases.
* Show documentation for __origin__ for generic aliases.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-04-18-10-52-15.bpo-40257.lv4WTq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-04-18-10-52-15.bpo-40257.lv4WTq.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ed094a --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-04-18-10-52-15.bpo-40257.lv4WTq.rst @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Improved help for the :mod:`typing` module. Docstrings are now shown for all +special forms and special generic aliases (like ``Union`` and ``List``). +Using ``help()`` with generic alias like ``List[int]`` will show the help +for the correspondent concrete type (``list`` in this case). |