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authorSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2002-09-26 21:50:01 (GMT)
committerSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2002-09-26 21:50:01 (GMT)
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backport patch resulting from discussion on <http://python.org/sf/612111>.
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diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index abf84e6..7eafe38 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1191,7 +1191,7 @@ def getpager():
return lambda text: pipepager(text, os.environ['PAGER'])
if sys.platform == 'win32':
return lambda text: tempfilepager(plain(text), 'more <')
- if hasattr(os, 'system') and os.system('less 2>/dev/null') == 0:
+ if hasattr(os, 'system') and os.system('(less) 2>/dev/null') == 0:
return lambda text: pipepager(text, 'less')
import tempfile