gh-98374: Suppress ImportError for invalid query for help() command. (gh-98450)

diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index a4dc910c8a8e891cacead6c2f1a138e46cc1fc57..c79ec77a8c09e4aa5dfb84f57a5d4de91759afc4 100755 (executable)
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1997,7 +1997,10 @@ class Helper:
     _GoInteractive = object()
     def __call__(self, request=_GoInteractive):
         if request is not self._GoInteractive:
-            self.help(request)
+            try:
+                self.help(request)
+            except ImportError as e:
+                self.output.write(f'{e}\n')
         else:
             self.intro()
             self.interact()

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-10-19-23-48-46.gh-issue-98374.eOBh8M.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-10-19-23-48-46.gh-issue-98374.eOBh8M.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..56a41e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-10-19-23-48-46.gh-issue-98374.eOBh8M.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Suppress ImportError for invalid query for help() command. Patch by Dong-hee
+Na.