Index: Lib/pydoc.py
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--- Lib/pydoc.py	(revision 78175)
+++ Lib/pydoc.py	(working copy)
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
 def stripid(text):
     """Remove the hexadecimal id from a Python object representation."""
     # The behaviour of %p is implementation-dependent in terms of case.
-    if _re_stripid.search(repr(Exception)):
+    if _re_stripid.search(repr(stripid)):
         return _re_stripid.sub(r'\1', text)
     return text
 
Index: Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
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--- Lib/test/test_pydoc.py	(revision 78175)
+++ Lib/test/test_pydoc.py	(working copy)
@@ -291,7 +291,15 @@
             "white space was not stripped from module name "
             "or other error output mismatch")
 
+    def test_stripid(self):
+        stripid = pydoc.stripid
+        # strip the id from '<function stripid at 0x88dcee4>'
+        self.assertEqual(stripid(repr(stripid)), '<function stripid>')
+        # nothing to strip, return the same text
+        self.assertEqual(stripid(repr(42)), repr(42))
+        self.assertEqual(stripid(repr(pydoc)), repr(pydoc))
 
+
 class TestDescriptions(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_module(self):