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I don't know if there are a large number of modules with
triple-single-quoted docstrings. Pydoc will search any
module in site-packages at least, so you have to consider
third-party modules.

At best pydoc is inconsistent - the web browser display uses
the __doc__attribute but search and apropos use synopsis().
It's a pretty simple change to recognize any triple-quoted
string, it seems like a good idea to me...

I have attached a revised patch that uses a regex match so
it works with e.g. uR""" and other variations of triple-quoting.

FWIW this bug report was motivated by this thread on
comp.lang.python:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/e5cfccb7c9a168d7/1c1702e71e1939b0?q=triple&rnum=1#1c1702e71e1939b0