diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index e983212..03c0d09 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -356,7 +356,8 @@
                                  'marshal', 'posix', 'signal', 'sys',
                                  'thread', 'zipimport') or
              (file.startswith(basedir) and
-              not file.startswith(os.path.join(basedir, 'site-packages'))))):
+              not file.startswith(os.path.join(basedir, 'site-packages')))) and
+            object.__name__ not in ('xml.etree')):
             if docloc.startswith("http://"):
                 docloc = "%s/%s" % (docloc.rstrip("/"), object.__name__)
             else: