On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Robert <rxjw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at 9:56:23 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Robert <com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > When I use Enthought/Canopy, help(DataFrame) has so much content that it >> > exceeds the display buffer, i.e. its head is cut off as I go up to see it. >> > I would like to know whether there is a way similar to Linux redirection to >> > save the help DataFrame content to a file? >> >> If you use command-line Python (by just running 'python' or 'python3' >> in your shell), you should be able to use help() with a More pager. >> >> ChrisA > > Thanks for this useful idea. > I have tried with: > > help(DataFrame) | more > NameError Traceback (most recent call last) > <ipython-input-52-826956076b70> in <module>() > ----> 1 help(DataFrame) | more > > NameError: name 'more' is not defined > //////////// > It is possible I misunderstand your method. Could you give me a little more > description on it?
Sorry for the confusion. You don't need to explicitly request the pager; the default interpreter configuration should include that. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
