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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-07-23 19:44:30 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-07-23 19:44:30 (GMT)
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If $TERM is "dumb" or "emacs", just dump the text instead of trying to run
"less". Patch contributed by Alex Convertry. This closes SF patch #443551.
-rwxr-xr-xLib/pydoc.py2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 9ec57aa..fe90a01 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -954,6 +954,8 @@ def getpager():
return plainpager
if not sys.stdin.isatty() or not sys.stdout.isatty():
return plainpager
+ if os.environ.get('TERM') in ['dumb', 'emacs']:
+ return lambda text: sys.stdout.write(text)
if os.environ.has_key('PAGER'):
if sys.platform == 'win32': # pipes completely broken in Windows
return lambda text: tempfilepager(plain(text), os.environ['PAGER'])