bpo-38786: Add parsing of https links to pydoc (GH-17143)

Lib/pydoc.py

@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ class HTMLDoc(Doc):
         escape = escape or self.escape
         results = []
         here = 0
-        pattern = re.compile(r'\b((http|ftp)://\S+[\w/]|'
+        pattern = re.compile(r'\b((http|https|ftp)://\S+[\w/]|'
                                 r'RFC[- ]?(\d+)|'
                                 r'PEP[- ]?(\d+)|'
                                 r'(self\.)?(\w+))')

Lib/test/test_pydoc.py

@@ -1311,6 +1311,17 @@ foo
             'async <a name="-an_async_generator"><strong>an_async_generator',
             html)
 
+    def test_html_for_https_links(self):
+        def a_fn_with_https_link():
+            """a link https://localhost/"""
+            pass
+
+        html = pydoc.HTMLDoc().document(a_fn_with_https_link)
+        self.assertIn(
+            '<a href="https://localhost/">https://localhost/</a>',
+            html
+        )
+
 class PydocServerTest(unittest.TestCase):
     """Tests for pydoc._start_server"""
 

Lib/xmlrpc/server.py

@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ class ServerHTMLDoc(pydoc.HTMLDoc):
         # hyperlinking of arbitrary strings being used as method
         # names. Only methods with names consisting of word characters
         # and '.'s are hyperlinked.
-        pattern = re.compile(r'\b((http|ftp)://\S+[\w/]|'
+        pattern = re.compile(r'\b((http|https|ftp)://\S+[\w/]|'
                                 r'RFC[- ]?(\d+)|'
                                 r'PEP[- ]?(\d+)|'
                                 r'(self\.)?((?:\w|\.)+))\b')

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-13-16-49-03.bpo-38786.gNOwKh.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pydoc now recognizes and parses HTTPS URLs. Patch by python273.