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-rw-r--r--Lib/pydoc.py3
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 063aa9c..de0084c 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1429,7 +1429,8 @@ def getpager():
return plainpager
if not sys.stdin.isatty() or not sys.stdout.isatty():
return plainpager
- if 'PAGER' in os.environ:
+ use_pager = os.environ.get('MANPAGER') or os.environ.get('PAGER')
+ if use_pager:
if sys.platform == 'win32': # pipes completely broken in Windows
return lambda text: tempfilepager(plain(text), os.environ['PAGER'])
elif os.environ.get('TERM') in ('dumb', 'emacs'):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 246896f..956303a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 3
Library
-------
+- Issue #8637: Honor a pager set by the env var MANPAGER (in preference to
+ one set by the env var PAGER).
+
- Issue #22636: Avoid shell injection problems with
ctypes.util.find_library().