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r67953 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 19:20:04 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 3 lines
Patch #4739 by David Laban: add symbols to pydoc help topics,
so that ``help('@')`` works as expected.
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- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
+- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
+ works as expected in the interactive environment.
+
- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
Gabriel Genellina.