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-The :mod:`pydoc` module automatically generates documentation from Python
+The :mod:`!pydoc` module automatically generates documentation from Python
modules. The documentation can be presented as pages of text on the console,
served to a web browser, or saved to HTML files.
For modules, classes, functions and methods, the displayed documentation is
-derived from the docstring (i.e. the :attr:`__doc__` attribute) of the object,
+derived from the docstring (i.e. the :attr:`!__doc__` attribute) of the object,
and recursively of its documentable members. If there is no docstring,
-:mod:`pydoc` tries to obtain a description from the block of comment lines just
+:mod:`!pydoc` tries to obtain a description from the block of comment lines just
above the definition of the class, function or method in the source file, or at
the top of the module (see :func:`inspect.getcomments`).
The built-in function :func:`help` invokes the online help system in the
-interactive interpreter, which uses :mod:`pydoc` to generate its documentation
+interactive interpreter, which uses :mod:`!pydoc` to generate its documentation
as text on the console. The same text documentation can also be viewed from
outside the Python interpreter by running :program:`pydoc` as a script at the
operating system's command prompt. For example, running ::
.. note::
- In order to find objects and their documentation, :mod:`pydoc` imports the
+ In order to find objects and their documentation, :mod:`!pydoc` imports the
module(s) to be documented. Therefore, any code on module level will be
executed on that occasion. Use an ``if __name__ == '__main__':`` guard to
only execute code when a file is invoked as a script and not just imported.
Module docs for core modules are assumed to reside in
``https://docs.python.org/X.Y/library/`` where ``X`` and ``Y`` are the
major and minor version numbers of the Python interpreter. This can
-be overridden by setting the :envvar:`PYTHONDOCS` environment variable
+be overridden by setting the :envvar:`!PYTHONDOCS` environment variable
to a different URL or to a local directory containing the Library
Reference Manual pages.
The ``-g`` command line option was removed.
.. versionchanged:: 3.4
- :mod:`pydoc` now uses :func:`inspect.signature` rather than
+ :mod:`!pydoc` now uses :func:`inspect.signature` rather than
:func:`inspect.getfullargspec` to extract signature information from
callables.