From 4156b2fc1378531bdd9459cd131fb9fa25a5af34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dong-hee Na <donghee.na@python.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:56:21 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] gh-98374: Suppress ImportError for invalid query for help()
 command. (gh-98450)

---
 Lib/pydoc.py                                                 | 5 ++++-
 .../2022-10-19-23-48-46.gh-issue-98374.eOBh8M.rst            | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-10-19-23-48-46.gh-issue-98374.eOBh8M.rst

diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index a4dc910c8a8..c79ec77a8c0 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1997,7 +1997,10 @@ class Helper:
     _GoInteractive = object()
     def __call__(self, request=_GoInteractive):
         if request is not self._GoInteractive:
-            self.help(request)
+            try:
+                self.help(request)
+            except ImportError as e:
+                self.output.write(f'{e}\n')
         else:
             self.intro()
             self.interact()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-10-19-23-48-46.gh-issue-98374.eOBh8M.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-10-19-23-48-46.gh-issue-98374.eOBh8M.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..56a41e3883d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-10-19-23-48-46.gh-issue-98374.eOBh8M.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Suppress ImportError for invalid query for help() command. Patch by Dong-hee
+Na.