From 61d003a8f147a99c22a63f9e259631e51dd66970 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:06:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #18224: Removed pydoc script from created venv, as it
 causes problems on Windows and adds no value over and above python -m pydoc
 ...

---
 Lib/venv/scripts/nt/pydoc.py | 4 ----
 Lib/venv/scripts/posix/pydoc | 5 -----
 Misc/NEWS                    | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 Lib/venv/scripts/nt/pydoc.py
 delete mode 100755 Lib/venv/scripts/posix/pydoc

diff --git a/Lib/venv/scripts/nt/pydoc.py b/Lib/venv/scripts/nt/pydoc.py
deleted file mode 100644
index dbf2db71b49..00000000000
--- a/Lib/venv/scripts/nt/pydoc.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#!__VENV_PYTHON__
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    import sys, pydoc
-    sys.exit(pydoc.cli())
diff --git a/Lib/venv/scripts/posix/pydoc b/Lib/venv/scripts/posix/pydoc
deleted file mode 100755
index 92337711289..00000000000
--- a/Lib/venv/scripts/posix/pydoc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#!__VENV_PYTHON__
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    import sys, pydoc
-    sys.exit(pydoc.cli())
-
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 884ae94dde0..17d8f601a25 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #18224: Removed pydoc script from created venv, as it causes problems
+  on Windows and adds no value over and above python -m pydoc ...
+
 - Issue #18155: The csv module now correctly handles csv files that use
   a delimter character that has a special meaning in regexes, instead of
   throwing an exception.