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

[Ned Deily]

In article <lfmbjj$nka$2 at ger.gmane.org>,
 Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

> 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.

That covers the whatsnew file but the changes RDM have been making 
affect other parts of the documentation and Misc/NEWS, too.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org