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| author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2002-09-26 21:44:57 (GMT) |
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| committer | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2002-09-26 21:44:57 (GMT) |
| commit | d404bee2e2a354627ac540336408225648feffe9 (patch) | |
| tree | 36f192ff1a7caf48f1f7898402ccc4abea46ef0c /Lib/pydoc.py | |
| parent | 479f3d3d2a8013a549120d8b71a0e191495599cb (diff) | |
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try executing 'less' in a parenthesized subshell - prevents systems like
Solaris from squawking if less isn't available. See
http://python.org/sf/612111 for details.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py index d54bc22..ecee79b 100755 --- a/Lib/pydoc.py +++ b/Lib/pydoc.py @@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ def getpager(): return lambda text: pipepager(text, os.environ['PAGER']) if sys.platform == 'win32' or sys.platform.startswith('os2'): 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 |