[issue7798] document pydoc methods

Éric Araujo added the comment: pager is a general utility whereas cmd is for building REPLs, so I don’t think cmd is a good place. Can’t find a better one, though; shutil maybe. I have another feature in mind for a new module dedicated to the console: color codes, as seen duplicated in apps l

[issue7798] document pydoc methods

Ron Adam added the comment: I think a good place for the pager is in the cmd module. I have a separated version of it I could upload if there is consensus on this. I've extracted the text server, but it's in a minimum 'works for pydoc' stage. (See issue 2001) Both of these need some more ey

[issue7798] document pydoc methods

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Pydoc has a number of useful things that might be moved elsewhere and imported. An example is the no-yes filter _split_list. Documenting them in place would create something of a jumble. So I think this issue should be either closed (and possibly another open

[issue7798] document pydoc methods

anatoly techtonik added the comment: I won't mind against the pager module in the main library. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

[issue7798] document pydoc methods

Georg Brandl added the comment: Very likely, these functions are not meant to be anything but utilities. As API functions, they also don't belong into pydoc. -- assignee: georg.brandl -> ___ Python tracker _

[issue7798] document pydoc methods

Changes by Brian Curtin : -- priority: -> normal stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue7798] document pydoc methods

New submission from anatoly techtonik : pydoc contains some useful methods like "pager()" that could be reused in many python application, and it would be handy to have a documentation for them in Python manual http://docs.python.org/library/pydoc -- assignee: georg.brandl components: