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gh-112007: Re-organize help utility intro message (#112017)

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Most important: move how-to-quit sentence to the end and mention 'q'.
Re-group the other sentences and improve some wording.
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Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ -2073,20 +2073,22 @@ def help(self, request, is_cli=False):
self.output.write('\n')
def intro(self):
self.output.write('''
Welcome to Python {0}'s help utility!
If this is your first time using Python, you should definitely check out
the tutorial on the internet at https://docs.python.org/{0}/tutorial/.
self.output.write('''\
Welcome to Python {0}'s help utility! If this is your first time using
Python, you should definitely check out the tutorial at
https://docs.python.org/{0}/tutorial/.
Enter the name of any module, keyword, or topic to get help on writing
Python programs and using Python modules. To quit this help utility and
return to the interpreter, just type "quit".
Python programs and using Python modules. To get a list of available
modules, keywords, symbols, or topics, enter "modules", "keywords",
"symbols", or "topics".
To get a list of available modules, keywords, symbols, or topics, type
"modules", "keywords", "symbols", or "topics". Each module also comes
with a one-line summary of what it does; to list the modules whose name
or summary contain a given string such as "spam", type "modules spam".
Each module also comes with a one-line summary of what it does; to list
the modules whose name or summary contain a given string such as "spam",
enter "modules spam".
To quit this help utility and return to the interpreter,
enter "q" or "quit".
'''.format('%d.%d' % sys.version_info[:2]))
def list(self, items, columns=4, width=80):