From cf94dddff520bf9db72c613ee9665d5a4de17777 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9s=20Delfino?= <adelfino@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2026 14:43:29 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] gh-161414: Remove the backquote from the `pydoc` symbols
 (GH-161416) (cherry picked from commit
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Co-authored-by: Andrés Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: sobolevn <mail@sobolevn.me>
Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <stan@python.org>
---
 Lib/pydoc.py                                              | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_pydoc/test_pydoc.py                         | 8 ++++++++
 .../2026-11-05-11-59-58.gh-issue-161414.Xnxe8A.rst        | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-11-05-11-59-58.gh-issue-161414.Xnxe8A.rst

diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index b5344d76ded294..24d1772e320f1e 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1886,7 +1886,6 @@ class Helper:
         ':=': 'ASSIGNMENTEXPRESSIONS',
         '_': 'PRIVATENAMES',
         '__': 'PRIVATENAMES SPECIALMETHODS',
-        '`': 'BACKQUOTES',
         '(': 'TUPLES FUNCTIONS CALLS',
         ')': 'TUPLES FUNCTIONS CALLS',
         '[': 'LISTS SUBSCRIPTS SLICINGS',
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pydoc/test_pydoc.py b/Lib/test/test_pydoc/test_pydoc.py
index 9cb7f662387f6f..3f39fb64afbd11 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc/test_pydoc.py
@@ -2200,6 +2200,14 @@ def test_keywords(self):
         self.assertEqual(sorted(pydoc.Helper.keywords),
                          sorted(keyword.kwlist + ['case', 'match', 'lazy']))
 
+    def test_symbols(self):
+        # gh-161414
+        for symbol in pydoc.Helper.symbols:
+            with self.subTest(symbol=symbol):
+                buf = StringIO()
+                pydoc.Helper(output=buf).showsymbol(symbol)
+                self.assertNotIn('no documentation found', buf.getvalue())
+
     def test_interact_empty_line_continues(self):
         # gh-138568: test pressing Enter without input should continue in help session
         self.assertEqual(
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-11-05-11-59-58.gh-issue-161414.Xnxe8A.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-11-05-11-59-58.gh-issue-161414.Xnxe8A.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..7536c5c25a13f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-11-05-11-59-58.gh-issue-161414.Xnxe8A.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Remove the backquote from the symbols listed by :func:`help`, asking for help on it reported that no
+documentation was found.