bpo-33422: Fix quotation marks getting deleted when looking up byte/string literals on pydoc. (GH-6701)
Also update the list of string prefixes.
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index e7a1655..199745c 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1747,8 +1747,9 @@
}
# Either add symbols to this dictionary or to the symbols dictionary
# directly: Whichever is easier. They are merged later.
+ _strprefixes = [p + q for p in ('b', 'f', 'r', 'u') for q in ("'", '"')]
_symbols_inverse = {
- 'STRINGS' : ("'", "'''", "r'", "b'", '"""', '"', 'r"', 'b"'),
+ 'STRINGS' : ("'", "'''", '"', '"""', *_strprefixes),
'OPERATORS' : ('+', '-', '*', '**', '/', '//', '%', '<<', '>>', '&',
'|', '^', '~', '<', '>', '<=', '>=', '==', '!=', '<>'),
'COMPARISON' : ('<', '>', '<=', '>=', '==', '!=', '<>'),
@@ -1910,7 +1911,13 @@
if not request: break
except (KeyboardInterrupt, EOFError):
break
- request = replace(request, '"', '', "'", '').strip()
+ request = request.strip()
+
+ # Make sure significant trailing quoting marks of literals don't
+ # get deleted while cleaning input
+ if (len(request) > 2 and request[0] == request[-1] in ("'", '"')
+ and request[0] not in request[1:-1]):
+ request = request[1:-1]
if request.lower() in ('q', 'quit'): break
if request == 'help':
self.intro()