bpo-940286: Fix pydoc to show cross refs correctly (GH-8390)

python · Jul 23, 2018 · d04f46c · d04f46c
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diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -2028,14 +2028,15 @@ def showtopic(self, topic, more_xrefs=''):
         except KeyError:
             self.output.write('no documentation found for %s\n' % repr(topic))
             return
-        pager(doc.strip() + '\n')
+        doc = doc.strip() + '\n'
         if more_xrefs:
             xrefs = (xrefs or '') + ' ' + more_xrefs
         if xrefs:
             import textwrap
             text = 'Related help topics: ' + ', '.join(xrefs.split()) + '\n'
             wrapped_text = textwrap.wrap(text, 72)
-            self.output.write('\n%s\n' % ''.join(wrapped_text))
+            doc += '\n%s\n' % '\n'.join(wrapped_text)
+        pager(doc)
 
     def _gettopic(self, topic, more_xrefs=''):
         """Return unbuffered tuple of (topic, xrefs).

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-22-07-59-32.bpo-940286.NZTzyc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-22-07-59-32.bpo-940286.NZTzyc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+pydoc's ``Helper.showtopic()`` method now prints the cross references of a
+topic correctly.