diff --git a/Doc/tools/extensions/pyspecific.py b/Doc/tools/extensions/pyspecific.py
index c89b1693343b4e..2479d284c263db 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/extensions/pyspecific.py
+++ b/Doc/tools/extensions/pyspecific.py
@@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ class PydocTopicsBuilder(Builder):
 
     def init(self):
         self.topics = {}
+        self.modules = {}
         self.secnumbers = {}
 
     def get_outdated_docs(self):
@@ -387,6 +388,15 @@ def get_target_uri(self, docname, typ=None):
         return ''  # no URIs
 
     def write(self, *ignored):
+        modules = self.env.domaindata['py']['modules']
+        for module in status_iterator(modules,
+                                      'extracting documented modules... ',
+                                      length=len(modules)):
+            data = modules[module]
+            docname = data.docname + '.html'
+            if not docname.endswith(f'/{module}.html'):
+                docname += f'#{data.node_id}'
+            self.modules[module] = docname
         writer = TextWriter(self)
         for label in status_iterator(pydoc_topic_labels,
                                      'building topics... ',
@@ -403,14 +413,13 @@ def write(self, *ignored):
             self.topics[label] = writer.output
 
     def finish(self):
-        f = open(path.join(self.outdir, 'topics.py'), 'wb')
-        try:
-            f.write('# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n'.encode('utf-8'))
-            f.write(('# Autogenerated by Sphinx on %s\n' % asctime()).encode('utf-8'))
-            f.write('# as part of the release process.\n'.encode('utf-8'))
-            f.write(('topics = ' + pformat(self.topics) + '\n').encode('utf-8'))
-        finally:
-            f.close()
+        fn = path.join(self.outdir, 'topics.py')
+        with open(fn, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+            print('# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-', file=f)
+            print('# Autogenerated by Sphinx on', asctime(), file=f)
+            print('# as part of the release process.', file=f)
+            print('topics =', pformat(self.topics), file=f)
+            print('modules =', pformat(self.modules), file=f)
 
 
 # Support for documenting Opcodes
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index eec7b0770f56ca..ffd35ce60d3fb4 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ def safeimport(path, forceload=0, cache={}):
 class Doc:
 
     PYTHONDOCS = os.environ.get("PYTHONDOCS",
-                                "https://docs.python.org/%d.%d/library"
+                                "https://docs.python.org/%d.%d"
                                 % sys.version_info[:2])
 
     def document(self, object, name=None, *args):
@@ -551,29 +551,24 @@ def fail(self, object, name=None, *args):
 
     def getdocloc(self, object, basedir=sysconfig.get_path('stdlib')):
         """Return the location of module docs or None"""
-
         try:
-            file = inspect.getabsfile(object)
-        except TypeError:
-            file = '(built-in)'
+            from pydoc_data.topics import modules
+        except ImportError:
+            return None
 
+        loc = modules.get(object.__name__)
+        if loc is None:
+            return None
+        # It's possible at this point that we're going to try to give a link to
+        # standard library documentation for an entirely unrelated module.  The
+        # standard library name would have to be shadowed, though, so a wrong
+        # link is probably not the biggest concern.
         docloc = os.environ.get("PYTHONDOCS", self.PYTHONDOCS)
+        if docloc.startswith(('http://', 'https://')):
+            return f'{docloc.rstrip("/")}/{loc}'
+        # The location may contain a '#' anchor, which does not fit an fs path
+        return os.path.join(docloc, loc.split('#')[0])
 
-        basedir = os.path.normcase(basedir)
-        if (isinstance(object, type(os)) and
-            (object.__name__ in ('errno', 'exceptions', 'gc',
-                                 'marshal', 'posix', 'signal', 'sys',
-                                 '_thread', 'zipimport') or
-             (file.startswith(basedir) and
-              not file.startswith(os.path.join(basedir, 'site-packages')))) and
-            object.__name__ not in ('xml.etree', 'test.test_pydoc.pydoc_mod')):
-            if docloc.startswith(("http://", "https://")):
-                docloc = "{}/{}.html".format(docloc.rstrip("/"), object.__name__.lower())
-            else:
-                docloc = os.path.join(docloc, object.__name__.lower() + ".html")
-        else:
-            docloc = None
-        return docloc
 
 # -------------------------------------------- HTML documentation generator
 
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
index 97bb4eb52f4386..9d9eaaf8ecc4ba 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Wed May  8 11:11:17 2024
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Thu Sep 26 10:14:28 2024
 # as part of the release process.
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
@@ -16811,3 +16811,287 @@
           'For full details of "yield" semantics, refer to the Yield '
           'expressions\n'
           'section.\n'}
+modules = {'__future__': 'library/__future__.html',
+ '__main__': 'library/__main__.html',
+ '_thread': 'library/_thread.html',
+ '_tkinter': 'library/tkinter.html#module-_tkinter',
+ 'abc': 'library/abc.html',
+ 'annotationlib': 'library/annotationlib.html',
+ 'argparse': 'library/argparse.html',
+ 'array': 'library/array.html',
+ 'ast': 'library/ast.html',
+ 'asyncio': 'library/asyncio.html',
+ 'atexit': 'library/atexit.html',
+ 'base64': 'library/base64.html',
+ 'bdb': 'library/bdb.html',
+ 'binascii': 'library/binascii.html',
+ 'bisect': 'library/bisect.html',
+ 'builtins': 'library/builtins.html',
+ 'bz2': 'library/bz2.html',
+ 'cProfile': 'library/profile.html#module-cProfile',
+ 'calendar': 'library/calendar.html',
+ 'cmath': 'library/cmath.html',
+ 'cmd': 'library/cmd.html',
+ 'code': 'library/code.html',
+ 'codecs': 'library/codecs.html',
+ 'codeop': 'library/codeop.html',
+ 'collections': 'library/collections.html',
+ 'collections.abc': 'library/collections.abc.html',
+ 'colorsys': 'library/colorsys.html',
+ 'compileall': 'library/compileall.html',
+ 'concurrent.futures': 'library/concurrent.futures.html',
+ 'configparser': 'library/configparser.html',
+ 'contextlib': 'library/contextlib.html',
+ 'contextvars': 'library/contextvars.html',
+ 'copy': 'library/copy.html',
+ 'copyreg': 'library/copyreg.html',
+ 'csv': 'library/csv.html',
+ 'ctypes': 'library/ctypes.html',
+ 'curses': 'library/curses.html',
+ 'curses.ascii': 'library/curses.ascii.html',
+ 'curses.panel': 'library/curses.panel.html',
+ 'curses.textpad': 'library/curses.html#module-curses.textpad',
+ 'dataclasses': 'library/dataclasses.html',
+ 'datetime': 'library/datetime.html',
+ 'dbm': 'library/dbm.html',
+ 'dbm.dumb': 'library/dbm.html#module-dbm.dumb',
+ 'dbm.gnu': 'library/dbm.html#module-dbm.gnu',
+ 'dbm.ndbm': 'library/dbm.html#module-dbm.ndbm',
+ 'dbm.sqlite3': 'library/dbm.html#module-dbm.sqlite3',
+ 'decimal': 'library/decimal.html',
+ 'difflib': 'library/difflib.html',
+ 'dis': 'library/dis.html',
+ 'doctest': 'library/doctest.html',
+ 'email': 'library/email.html',
+ 'email.charset': 'library/email.charset.html',
+ 'email.contentmanager': 'library/email.contentmanager.html',
+ 'email.encoders': 'library/email.encoders.html',
+ 'email.errors': 'library/email.errors.html',
+ 'email.generator': 'library/email.generator.html',
+ 'email.header': 'library/email.header.html',
+ 'email.headerregistry': 'library/email.headerregistry.html',
+ 'email.iterators': 'library/email.iterators.html',
+ 'email.message': 'library/email.message.html',
+ 'email.mime': 'library/email.mime.html',
+ 'email.mime.application': 'library/email.mime.html#module-email.mime.application',
+ 'email.mime.audio': 'library/email.mime.html#module-email.mime.audio',
+ 'email.mime.base': 'library/email.mime.html#module-email.mime.base',
+ 'email.mime.image': 'library/email.mime.html#module-email.mime.image',
+ 'email.mime.message': 'library/email.mime.html#module-email.mime.message',
+ 'email.mime.multipart': 'library/email.mime.html#module-email.mime.multipart',
+ 'email.mime.nonmultipart': 'library/email.mime.html#module-email.mime.nonmultipart',
+ 'email.mime.text': 'library/email.mime.html#module-email.mime.text',
+ 'email.parser': 'library/email.parser.html',
+ 'email.policy': 'library/email.policy.html',
+ 'email.utils': 'library/email.utils.html',
+ 'encodings.idna': 'library/codecs.html#module-encodings.idna',
+ 'encodings.mbcs': 'library/codecs.html#module-encodings.mbcs',
+ 'encodings.utf_8_sig': 'library/codecs.html#module-encodings.utf_8_sig',
+ 'ensurepip': 'library/ensurepip.html',
+ 'enum': 'library/enum.html',
+ 'errno': 'library/errno.html',
+ 'faulthandler': 'library/faulthandler.html',
+ 'fcntl': 'library/fcntl.html',
+ 'filecmp': 'library/filecmp.html',
+ 'fileinput': 'library/fileinput.html',
+ 'fnmatch': 'library/fnmatch.html',
+ 'fractions': 'library/fractions.html',
+ 'ftplib': 'library/ftplib.html',
+ 'functools': 'library/functools.html',
+ 'gc': 'library/gc.html',
+ 'getopt': 'library/getopt.html',
+ 'getpass': 'library/getpass.html',
+ 'gettext': 'library/gettext.html',
+ 'glob': 'library/glob.html',
+ 'graphlib': 'library/graphlib.html',
+ 'grp': 'library/grp.html',
+ 'gzip': 'library/gzip.html',
+ 'hashlib': 'library/hashlib.html',
+ 'heapq': 'library/heapq.html',
+ 'hmac': 'library/hmac.html',
+ 'html': 'library/html.html',
+ 'html.entities': 'library/html.entities.html',
+ 'html.parser': 'library/html.parser.html',
+ 'http': 'library/http.html',
+ 'http.client': 'library/http.client.html',
+ 'http.cookiejar': 'library/http.cookiejar.html',
+ 'http.cookies': 'library/http.cookies.html',
+ 'http.server': 'library/http.server.html',
+ 'idlelib': 'library/idle.html#module-idlelib',
+ 'imaplib': 'library/imaplib.html',
+ 'importlib': 'library/importlib.html',
+ 'importlib.abc': 'library/importlib.html#module-importlib.abc',
+ 'importlib.machinery': 'library/importlib.html#module-importlib.machinery',
+ 'importlib.metadata': 'library/importlib.metadata.html',
+ 'importlib.resources': 'library/importlib.resources.html',
+ 'importlib.resources.abc': 'library/importlib.resources.abc.html',
+ 'importlib.util': 'library/importlib.html#module-importlib.util',
+ 'inspect': 'library/inspect.html',
+ 'io': 'library/io.html',
+ 'ipaddress': 'library/ipaddress.html',
+ 'itertools': 'library/itertools.html',
+ 'json': 'library/json.html',
+ 'json.tool': 'library/json.html#module-json.tool',
+ 'keyword': 'library/keyword.html',
+ 'linecache': 'library/linecache.html',
+ 'locale': 'library/locale.html',
+ 'logging': 'library/logging.html',
+ 'logging.config': 'library/logging.config.html',
+ 'logging.handlers': 'library/logging.handlers.html',
+ 'lzma': 'library/lzma.html',
+ 'mailbox': 'library/mailbox.html',
+ 'marshal': 'library/marshal.html',
+ 'math': 'library/math.html',
+ 'mimetypes': 'library/mimetypes.html',
+ 'mmap': 'library/mmap.html',
+ 'modulefinder': 'library/modulefinder.html',
+ 'msvcrt': 'library/msvcrt.html',
+ 'multiprocessing': 'library/multiprocessing.html',
+ 'multiprocessing.connection': 'library/multiprocessing.html#module-multiprocessing.connection',
+ 'multiprocessing.dummy': 'library/multiprocessing.html#module-multiprocessing.dummy',
+ 'multiprocessing.managers': 'library/multiprocessing.html#module-multiprocessing.managers',
+ 'multiprocessing.pool': 'library/multiprocessing.html#module-multiprocessing.pool',
+ 'multiprocessing.shared_memory': 'library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.html',
+ 'multiprocessing.sharedctypes': 'library/multiprocessing.html#module-multiprocessing.sharedctypes',
+ 'netrc': 'library/netrc.html',
+ 'numbers': 'library/numbers.html',
+ 'operator': 'library/operator.html',
+ 'optparse': 'library/optparse.html',
+ 'os': 'library/os.html',
+ 'os.path': 'library/os.path.html',
+ 'pathlib': 'library/pathlib.html',
+ 'pdb': 'library/pdb.html',
+ 'pickle': 'library/pickle.html',
+ 'pickletools': 'library/pickletools.html',
+ 'pkgutil': 'library/pkgutil.html',
+ 'platform': 'library/platform.html',
+ 'plistlib': 'library/plistlib.html',
+ 'poplib': 'library/poplib.html',
+ 'posix': 'library/posix.html',
+ 'pprint': 'library/pprint.html',
+ 'profile': 'library/profile.html',
+ 'pstats': 'library/profile.html#module-pstats',
+ 'pty': 'library/pty.html',
+ 'pwd': 'library/pwd.html',
+ 'py_compile': 'library/py_compile.html',
+ 'pyclbr': 'library/pyclbr.html',
+ 'pydoc': 'library/pydoc.html',
+ 'queue': 'library/queue.html',
+ 'quopri': 'library/quopri.html',
+ 'random': 'library/random.html',
+ 're': 'library/re.html',
+ 'readline': 'library/readline.html',
+ 'reprlib': 'library/reprlib.html',
+ 'resource': 'library/resource.html',
+ 'rlcompleter': 'library/rlcompleter.html',
+ 'runpy': 'library/runpy.html',
+ 'sched': 'library/sched.html',
+ 'secrets': 'library/secrets.html',
+ 'select': 'library/select.html',
+ 'selectors': 'library/selectors.html',
+ 'shelve': 'library/shelve.html',
+ 'shlex': 'library/shlex.html',
+ 'shutil': 'library/shutil.html',
+ 'signal': 'library/signal.html',
+ 'site': 'library/site.html',
+ 'sitecustomize': 'library/site.html#module-sitecustomize',
+ 'smtplib': 'library/smtplib.html',
+ 'socket': 'library/socket.html',
+ 'socketserver': 'library/socketserver.html',
+ 'sqlite3': 'library/sqlite3.html',
+ 'ssl': 'library/ssl.html',
+ 'stat': 'library/stat.html',
+ 'statistics': 'library/statistics.html',
+ 'string': 'library/string.html',
+ 'stringprep': 'library/stringprep.html',
+ 'struct': 'library/struct.html',
+ 'subprocess': 'library/subprocess.html',
+ 'symtable': 'library/symtable.html',
+ 'sys': 'library/sys.html',
+ 'sys.monitoring': 'library/sys.monitoring.html',
+ 'sysconfig': 'library/sysconfig.html',
+ 'syslog': 'library/syslog.html',
+ 'tabnanny': 'library/tabnanny.html',
+ 'tarfile': 'library/tarfile.html',
+ 'tempfile': 'library/tempfile.html',
+ 'termios': 'library/termios.html',
+ 'test': 'library/test.html',
+ 'test.regrtest': 'library/test.html#module-test.regrtest',
+ 'test.support': 'library/test.html#module-test.support',
+ 'test.support.bytecode_helper': 'library/test.html#module-test.support.bytecode_helper',
+ 'test.support.import_helper': 'library/test.html#module-test.support.import_helper',
+ 'test.support.os_helper': 'library/test.html#module-test.support.os_helper',
+ 'test.support.script_helper': 'library/test.html#module-test.support.script_helper',
+ 'test.support.socket_helper': 'library/test.html#module-test.support.socket_helper',
+ 'test.support.threading_helper': 'library/test.html#module-test.support.threading_helper',
+ 'test.support.warnings_helper': 'library/test.html#module-test.support.warnings_helper',
+ 'textwrap': 'library/textwrap.html',
+ 'threading': 'library/threading.html',
+ 'time': 'library/time.html',
+ 'timeit': 'library/timeit.html',
+ 'tkinter': 'library/tkinter.html',
+ 'tkinter.colorchooser': 'library/tkinter.colorchooser.html',
+ 'tkinter.commondialog': 'library/dialog.html#module-tkinter.commondialog',
+ 'tkinter.dnd': 'library/tkinter.dnd.html',
+ 'tkinter.filedialog': 'library/dialog.html#module-tkinter.filedialog',
+ 'tkinter.font': 'library/tkinter.font.html',
+ 'tkinter.messagebox': 'library/tkinter.messagebox.html',
+ 'tkinter.scrolledtext': 'library/tkinter.scrolledtext.html',
+ 'tkinter.simpledialog': 'library/dialog.html#module-tkinter.simpledialog',
+ 'tkinter.ttk': 'library/tkinter.ttk.html',
+ 'token': 'library/token.html',
+ 'tokenize': 'library/tokenize.html',
+ 'tomllib': 'library/tomllib.html',
+ 'trace': 'library/trace.html',
+ 'traceback': 'library/traceback.html',
+ 'tracemalloc': 'library/tracemalloc.html',
+ 'tty': 'library/tty.html',
+ 'turtle': 'library/turtle.html',
+ 'turtledemo': 'library/turtle.html#module-turtledemo',
+ 'types': 'library/types.html',
+ 'typing': 'library/typing.html',
+ 'unicodedata': 'library/unicodedata.html',
+ 'unittest': 'library/unittest.html',
+ 'unittest.mock': 'library/unittest.mock.html',
+ 'urllib': 'library/urllib.html',
+ 'urllib.error': 'library/urllib.error.html',
+ 'urllib.parse': 'library/urllib.parse.html',
+ 'urllib.request': 'library/urllib.request.html',
+ 'urllib.response': 'library/urllib.request.html#module-urllib.response',
+ 'urllib.robotparser': 'library/urllib.robotparser.html',
+ 'usercustomize': 'library/site.html#module-usercustomize',
+ 'uuid': 'library/uuid.html',
+ 'venv': 'library/venv.html',
+ 'warnings': 'library/warnings.html',
+ 'wave': 'library/wave.html',
+ 'weakref': 'library/weakref.html',
+ 'webbrowser': 'library/webbrowser.html',
+ 'winreg': 'library/winreg.html',
+ 'winsound': 'library/winsound.html',
+ 'wsgiref': 'library/wsgiref.html',
+ 'wsgiref.handlers': 'library/wsgiref.html#module-wsgiref.handlers',
+ 'wsgiref.headers': 'library/wsgiref.html#module-wsgiref.headers',
+ 'wsgiref.simple_server': 'library/wsgiref.html#module-wsgiref.simple_server',
+ 'wsgiref.types': 'library/wsgiref.html#module-wsgiref.types',
+ 'wsgiref.util': 'library/wsgiref.html#module-wsgiref.util',
+ 'wsgiref.validate': 'library/wsgiref.html#module-wsgiref.validate',
+ 'xml': 'library/xml.html',
+ 'xml.dom': 'library/xml.dom.html',
+ 'xml.dom.minidom': 'library/xml.dom.minidom.html',
+ 'xml.dom.pulldom': 'library/xml.dom.pulldom.html',
+ 'xml.etree.ElementInclude': 'library/xml.etree.elementtree.html#module-xml.etree.ElementInclude',
+ 'xml.etree.ElementTree': 'library/xml.etree.elementtree.html#module-xml.etree.ElementTree',
+ 'xml.parsers.expat': 'library/pyexpat.html#module-xml.parsers.expat',
+ 'xml.parsers.expat.errors': 'library/pyexpat.html#module-xml.parsers.expat.errors',
+ 'xml.parsers.expat.model': 'library/pyexpat.html#module-xml.parsers.expat.model',
+ 'xml.sax': 'library/xml.sax.html',
+ 'xml.sax.handler': 'library/xml.sax.handler.html',
+ 'xml.sax.saxutils': 'library/xml.sax.utils.html#module-xml.sax.saxutils',
+ 'xml.sax.xmlreader': 'library/xml.sax.reader.html#module-xml.sax.xmlreader',
+ 'xmlrpc.client': 'library/xmlrpc.client.html',
+ 'xmlrpc.server': 'library/xmlrpc.server.html',
+ 'zipapp': 'library/zipapp.html',
+ 'zipfile': 'library/zipfile.html',
+ 'zipimport': 'library/zipimport.html',
+ 'zlib': 'library/zlib.html',
+ 'zoneinfo': 'library/zoneinfo.html'}
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pydoc/test_pydoc.py b/Lib/test/test_pydoc/test_pydoc.py
index 776e02f41a1cec..345c8d13fef6a9 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc/test_pydoc.py
@@ -478,8 +478,20 @@ def test_mixed_case_module_names_are_lower_cased(self):
 
     def test_issue8225(self):
         # Test issue8225 to ensure no doc link appears for xml.etree
-        result, doc_loc = get_pydoc_text(xml.etree)
-        self.assertEqual(doc_loc, "", "MODULE DOCS incorrectly includes a link")
+        self.assertIsNone(
+            get_pydoc_link(xml.etree),
+            "MODULE DOCS incorrectly includes a link",
+            )
+
+    def test_gh84232_non_matching_doc_and_module_names(self):
+        turtledemo = import_helper.import_module('turtledemo')
+        self.assertIn('turtle.html', get_pydoc_link(turtledemo))
+
+    def test_gh84232_undocumented_modules(self):
+        self.assertIsNone(
+            get_pydoc_link(_pickle),
+            "MODULE DOCS incorrectly includes a link",
+            )
 
     def test_getpager_with_stdin_none(self):
         previous_stdin = sys.stdin
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-11-05-07-02-45.gh-issue-84232.yYDUjg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-11-05-07-02-45.gh-issue-84232.yYDUjg.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..1fd8010d38c49d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-11-05-07-02-45.gh-issue-84232.yYDUjg.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Fixed generation of documentation links in the output of ``help()`` for
+standard library module objects.  Links are now generated using a mapping
+between module names and documentation pages extracted from the
+documentation itself rather than a heuristic based on the module name
+alone, eliminating links to non-existent pages.