Enhancement to pydoc for Python 3.6 to allow full backgrounding as a server

[fmouse]

BPO	38221
Files	pydoc3.diff: Unified diff of enhancement against /usr/lib/python3.6/pydoc.py

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title = 'Enhancement to pydoc for Python 3.6 to allow full backgrounding as a server'
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[fmouse]

This patch extends the functionality of pydoc3 to allow it to run purely as a server, as is the case with pydoc for python 2.7. If the -d option is specified, pydoc as a server (-p <port> option) may be backgrounded to a subshell with "&".