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Author sobolevn
Recipients sobolevn
Date 2022-01-27.11:40:52
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Here's the problem. `pydoc.Helper` is defined as:

```
class Helper:
    for topic, symbols_ in _symbols_inverse.items():
        for symbol in symbols_:
            topics = symbols.get(symbol, topic)
            if topic not in topics:
                topics = topics + ' ' + topic
            symbols[symbol] = topics
```

Link: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/08c0ed2d9c0d01ad1a5adc0787bc75e4e90cbb85/Lib/pydoc.py#L1877-L1882

It causes some unwanted consequences: `topic, symbols_, symbol` are leaking to the class's namespace. Example:

```
>>> import pydoc
>>> pydoc.Helper.symbol
'J'
>>> pydoc.Helper.topic
'COMPLEX'
>>> pydoc.Helper.symbols_
('j', 'J')
```

There's also `topics` var, but it is shadowed later.

So, I propose deleting all intermediate variables right after the `for` loop.
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