[issue8637] pydoc should respect MANPAGER over PAGER.

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: > > Éric Araujo added the comment: > > Is there a standard documenting MANPAGER somewhere? > Not really a standard, but man page for man on my OSX laptop says: """ -P pager Specif

[issue8637] pydoc should respect MANPAGER over PAGER.

Éric Araujo added the comment: Is there a standard documenting MANPAGER somewhere? -- nosy: +eric.araujo versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue8637] pydoc should respect MANPAGER over PAGER.

Justin Bronder added the comment: I chose MANPAGER as the command line pydoc utility already clones some of the man functionality, but I'm fine with PYDOCPAGER or anything else that allows me to use pydoc without having to change PAGER first. -- __

[issue8637] pydoc should respect MANPAGER over PAGER.

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Similar logic can be written simpler as use_pager = os.environ.get('MANPAGER') or os.environ.get('PAGER') if use_pager: ... (yes, I think ignoring empty *PAGER is preferable to an error) I am not sure, pydoc should respect MANPAGER. Why not PYDOCPAGER

[issue8637] pydoc should respect MANPAGER over PAGER.

Changes by Brian Curtin : -- stage: -> unit test needed title: [PATCH] pydoc should respect MANPAGER over PAGER. -> pydoc should respect MANPAGER over PAGER. ___ Python tracker