pydoc skips methods of nested classes

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BPO	41633
Nosy	@bkline
Files	repro.py: Repro case to illustrate behavior Screen Shot 2020-08-25 at 11.26.39 AM.png

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title = 'pydoc skips methods of nested classes'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue41633'
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Although the documentation for the pydoc says that it produces documentation of the classes recursively, this isn't actually true.

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Here is the generated documentation. Note that no mention is made of the inner class's method.