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No Python documentation found for 'match' #132783

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@dzherb
dzherb
opened on Apr 21, 2025

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I noticed that the help() function does not return any documentation for the match statement:

help('match')  # No Python documentation found for 'match'

This appears to be because the match keyword is missing from the keywords attribute of the pydoc.Helper class, which is used to look up help topics.

To fix this, "match" (and possibly "case", for completeness) should be added to the keywords dictionary.

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  4. StanFromIreland commented on Apr 21, 2025

    @StanFromIreland
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    on Apr 21, 2025
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    I wonder if there are other cases of this, I presume there are if these were missed.

  5. ami4411 commented on Apr 22, 2025

    @ami4411
    ami4411
    on Apr 22, 2025

    I have come across several during development, which suggests that it is likely more cases have gone unnoticed.

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  7. sobolevn commented on May 6, 2025

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    on May 6, 2025
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    This is a duplicate of #105895
    Let's continue there.

  8. sobolevn
    closed this as a duplicateof help seems to have no information on match or case #105895 on May 6, 2025
  9. dzherb
    added 2 commits that reference this issue on May 6, 2025

    Merge branch 'python:main' into pythongh-132783-match-help

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    Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/pythongh-132783-match-help' into p…

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