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gh-120541: Improve the "less" prompt in pydoc (GH-120543)

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When help() is called with non-string argument, use __qualname__ or
__name__ if available, otherwise use "{typename} object".
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Serhiy Storchaka 2024-06-15 20:56:40 +03:00 • committed by GitHub
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@ -1755,7 +1755,14 @@ def doc(thing, title='Python Library Documentation: %s', forceload=0,
"""Display text documentation, given an object or a path to an object."""
if output is None:
try:
what = thing if isinstance(thing, str) else type(thing).__name__
if isinstance(thing, str):
what = thing
else:
what = getattr(thing, '__qualname__', None)
if not isinstance(what, str):
what = getattr(thing, '__name__', None)
if not isinstance(what, str):
what = type(thing).__name__ + ' object'
pager(render_doc(thing, title, forceload), f'Help on {what!s}')
except ImportError as exc:
if is_cli: