[issue40257] Improve the use of __doc__ in pydoc

[Karthikeyan Singaravelan]

Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.karthi at gmail.com> added the comment:

https://bugs.python.org/issue40587 has been opened. Copy paste of the report as below : 


In python 3.8:

```
>>> class A(object):
...     """standard docstring"""
...     pass
...
>>> import inspect
>>> inspect.getdoc(A())
'standard docstring'
```

In 3.9:

```
$ python
Python 3.9.0a6+ (heads/master:5b956ca42d, May 10 2020, 20:31:26)
[Clang 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.39.2)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class A(object):
KeyboardInterrupt
>>> class A(object):
...     """standard docstring"""
...     pass
...
>>> import inspect
>>> inspect.getdoc(A())
>>>
```

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nosy: +xtreak

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