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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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diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index dd4fdfd..6475dec 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1740,6 +1740,7 @@
 
     def help(self, request):
         if type(request) is type(''):
+            request = request.strip()
             if request == 'help': self.intro()
             elif request == 'keywords': self.listkeywords()
             elif request == 'symbols': self.listsymbols()