mention new module doc display feature of pydoc in libref and NEWS
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libpydoc.tex b/Doc/lib/libpydoc.tex
index 0108d79..bb74df6 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libpydoc.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libpydoc.tex
@@ -60,3 +60,8 @@
\program{pydoc} \programopt{spam} documents precisely the version of
the module you would get if you started the Python interpreter and
typed \samp{import spam}.
+
+Module docs for core modules are assumed to reside in
+{}\url{http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/}. This can be overridden by
+setting the \envvar{PYTHONDOCS} environment variable to a different URL or
+to a local directory containing the Library Reference Manual pages.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1632b65..1208d41 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@
Tools/Demos
-----------
+- The pydoc script will display a link to the module documentation for
+ modules determined to be part of the core distribution. The documentation
+ base directory defaults to http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/ but can
+ be changed by setting the PYTHONDOCS environment variable.
+
- texcheck.py now detects double word errors.
- md5sum.py mistakenly opened input files in text mode by default, a