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  r72966 | r.david.murray | 2009-05-27 16:07:21 -0400 (Wed, 27 May 2009) | 4 lines

  fix issue #6121 by stripping spaces from the argument in the 'help'
  function.
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+- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
+  argument to the 'help' function.
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 - Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
   arguments for strings with a space in them.