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[Python-Dev] undocumented help() function change in Python 3.4?

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Tue Mar 11 07:48:34 CET 2014 
Am 11.03.2014 06:31, schrieb Ned Deily:
> In article 
> <CADiSq7eif2yBkwR4NQLxi800CRqZWwVzmS11eNMt0PQnA23cLA at mail.gmail.com>,
>  Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11 March 2014 11:29, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
>> > The whatsnew updates (including the one for help) weren't copied into
>> > rc3.  They will be in final though, unless Larry forgets.
>> 
>> Oh, cool - yes, it will be good to have an up to date What's New
>> shipped, especially as part of the compiled Windows docs.
> 
> I was going to bring that point up today. How are all the new whatsnew 
> updates going to get into the 3.4.0 release?  They've, correctly, been 
> being pushed to the default branch.  But, AFAIK, for them to show up in 
> the 3.4.0 released docs we ship, all of the doc changes are going to 
> need to be cherry picked (or a big mass diff from the default branch) 
> into the 3.4 release branch, otherwise they will not be part of the 
> release.  (They certainly won't be part of the docs included with the 
> installers I build unless they are in the 3.4 releasing branch.)

Copying the file from default and doing just one commit in the releasing
branch should be the easiest way.

Georg
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