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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2020-04-18 17:13:21 +0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-04-18 17:13:21 +0300 |
| commit | 7e64414f57b70dc5bc0ab19a3162a0735f9bfabf (patch) | |
| tree | 89751f89c42a08b7335098b470ba6ddc395b184c /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | c606624af8d4cb3b4a052fb263bb983b3f87585b (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-7e64414f57b70dc5bc0ab19a3162a0735f9bfabf.tar.gz | |
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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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst index 2b36b0f154..8147d8f185 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst @@ -142,6 +142,12 @@ Other Language Changes grammar was much more restrictive. See :pep:`614` for details. (Contributed by Brandt Bucher in :issue:`39702`.) +* Improved help for the :mod:`typing` module. Docstrings are now shown for + all special forms and special generic aliases (like ``Union`` and ``List``). + Using :func:`help` with generic alias like ``List[int]`` will show the help + for the correspondent concrete type (``list`` in this case). + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`40257`.) + New Modules =========== |