pydoc - suppressing builtins?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Alan> Is it possible to persuade pydoc not to include documentation for
    Alan> methods inherited from built-in classes? ....

    Alan> I'm sure I could qite easily write something to post-process the
    Alan> HTML files; just wondering if there might be an easier way.

If you're going to go to the trouble of writing something to post-process
the HTML, maybe it would be no more difficult to simply patch pydoc, then
everyone wins.

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