Not all console configurations can correctly render smart quotes in help() text. See the "Æ" in "superclass's" below.
When building for pydoc-topics, it would be ideal to disable smart quotes. (I'm assuming from issue31793 that this can be done in configuration, though I'm not entirely sure how - it's not clear to me from those PRs)
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>>> help("BASICMETHODS")
Basic customization
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object.__new__(cls[, ...])
...
Typical implementations create a new instance of the class by
invoking the superclassÆs "__new__()" method using
"super().__new__(cls[, ...])" with appropriate arguments and then
modifying the newly-created instance as necessary before returning
it. |