[issue39079] help() modifies the string module

[Eric V. Smith]

Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> added the comment:

With 2.7.16 on cygwin, I get:

>>> import string
>>> string.letters
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
>>> help(int)
>>> string.letters
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'

But given that there's only 2 weeks of support left for 2.7, I don't see this getting changed.

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