[issue40296] help(list[int]) fails

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[issue40296] help(list[int]) fails

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: New changeset e207d721fcea01123f0e3edb83b6decdcb5e5e63 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.9': [3.9] bpo-40296: Fix supporting generic aliases in pydoc (GH-30253). (GH-31976) (GH-31981)

[issue40296] help(list[int]) fails

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: New changeset a5b7678a67ac99edd50822827b772e7d9afc8e64 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.10': [3.10] bpo-40296: Fix supporting generic aliases in pydoc (GH-30253). (GH-31976) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a5b7678a67ac99edd50822827b772e7d9afc8e64

[issue40296] help(list[int]) fails

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[issue40296] help(list[int]) fails

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[issue40296] help(list[int]) fails

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: New changeset cd44afc573e2e2de8d7e5a9119c347373066cd10 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'main': bpo-40296: Fix supporting generic aliases in pydoc (GH-30253) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cd44afc573e2e2de8d7e5a9119c347373066cd10 --

[issue40296] help(list[int]) fails

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[issue40296] help(list[int]) fails

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[issue40296] help(list[int]) fails

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[issue40296] help(list[int]) fails

Guido van Rossum added the comment: Yeah, I think help() or pydoc needs to special-case this. (Didn't your other PR attempt to fix this?) Note that issubclass(list[int].__class__, type) returns True -- the __class__ attribute in this case is taken from __origin__, while type() returns the

[issue40296] help(list[int]) fails

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: The problem is that isinstance(list[int], type) returns True, but list[int] is not actually an instance of type. >>> isinstance(list[int], type) True >>> issubclass(type(list[int]), type) False >>> type.__subclasses__(list[int]) Traceback (most recent call

[issue40296] help(list[int]) fails

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka : >>> help(list[int]) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/_sitebuiltins.py", line 103, in __call__ return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds) File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/pydoc.py", line 1905, in