From d404bee2e2a354627ac540336408225648feffe9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Skip Montanaro Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:44:57 +0000 Subject: 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. --- Lib/pydoc.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- cgit v0.12