mention new module doc display feature of pydoc in libref and NEWS

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Skip Montanaro 2003-09-10 19:04:13 +00:00
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@ -60,3 +60,8 @@ environment and path to locate modules. Thus, invoking
\program{pydoc} \programopt{spam} documents precisely the version of
the module you would get if you started the Python interpreter and
typed \samp{import spam}.
Module docs for core modules are assumed to reside in
{}\url{http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/}. This can be overridden by
setting the \envvar{PYTHONDOCS} environment variable to a different URL or
to a local directory containing the Library Reference Manual pages.