On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:22 PM, W. eWatson <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote: > This is a follow up to my post "Changing Lutz's mydir. It would seem there > should be some sort of toolbox that allows one to do things like mydir, and > perhaps a lot more. Maybe something like it exists in Linux.
Indeed; on *nix, when in the terminal, python invokes the pager[1] (which splits text into pages and lets you move between them, hence the name) for documentation that is longer than one screen. Apparently there are pagers available for Windows, but I don't know whether Python tries to use them or not. Perhaps try installing one, setting the PAGER environment variable, and see what happens when run python from the terminal and invoke help()? And/or file a bug if Python indeed doesn't try to invoke a pager on Windows. Of course, this won't do anything about IDLE's shell, which isn't a proper terminal. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
