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+Allow unfunctioning of pydoc to fail freely so that virtualenvs can be
+activated under Zsh with set -e (since otherwise ``unset -f`` and
+``unfunction`` exit with 1 if the function does not exist in Zsh) - by
+:user:`d125q`.