On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:39:30 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Joshua Landau
> <joshua.landau...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 25 June 2013 21:22, Bryan Britten <britten.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ah, I always forget to mention my OS on these forums. I'm running
>>> Windows.
>>
>> Supposedly, Windows has "more"
>> [http://superuser.com/questions/426226/less-or-more-in-windows],
>>
>> For Linux+less; this works:
>>
>> from subprocess import Popen, PIPE less = Popen("less", stdin=PIPE)
>> less.stdin.write(b"\n".join("This is line number
>> {}".format(i).encode("UTF-8") for i in range(1000)))
>> less.wait()
>
>
> Or simply:
>
> $ python my_script.py | less
>
> It works the same way in Windows:
>
> C:\> python my_script.py | more
this would be my approach
it leaves it to the user to decide what to do with the output (they may
even decide to write it to a file themselves)
and obeys to very good principles
1) Do not re-invent the wheel.
2) do only 1 job but do it well.
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richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work"
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