[issue8525] Display exception's subclasses in help()

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Éric Araujo <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Didn’t the first message ask for the feature to be extended to non-exceptions classes?  “Built-in”
> subclasses is a red herring, to me the feature is: display subclasses.  In the text output you can use
> the search feature of your pager to jump to a subclass, in the HTML output it would be a helpful link.

If we don't restrict to builtins, then the display will depend on what
modules are currently loaded and will be useless for command line use
unless all subclasses are defined in the same module.

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