On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:43:41 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: > This was reported by Victor Stinner as part of > http://bugs.python.org/issue19914 > to explain how cp65001 causes behavior like this with Python's > interactive help() function (which more for paging on Windows). > > >>> help(str) > Not enough memory.
Terry, I see you have closed the bug report. I think you were a little hasty. The ultimate cause of the bug may be the failure of Window's "more" command when the code-page is set to CP-65001, but that doesn't necessarily imply that Python shouldn't, or can't, do something about it. The interactive help system already supports different pagers, depending on the environment. I think that it could fall back on a more primitive pager if the preferred one fails. The relevant code is the pager() and getpager() functions in the pydoc module. The patch won't be trivial, but I think it can be done, and I think it should be done. Although possibly for Python 3.5 rather than a bug-fix version. Your thoughts? -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
