Issue #19980: Improved help() for non-recognized strings. help('') now

shows the help on str.  help('help') now shows the help on help().
Original patch by Mark Lawrence.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 861216e..7707f67 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -789,6 +789,7 @@ Ben Laurie
 Simon Law
 Julia Lawall
 Chris Lawrence
+Mark Lawrence
 Brian Leair
 Mathieu Leduc-Hamel
 Amandine Lee
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e9560e3..f1a1410 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 Library
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+
+- Issue #19980: Improved help() for non-recognized strings.  help('') now
+  shows the help on str.  help('help') now shows the help on help().
+  Original patch by Mark Lawrence.
+
 - Issue #23521: Corrected pure python implementation of timedelta division.
 
  * Eliminated OverflowError from timedelta * float for some floats;