[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-405553 ] pydoc.help broken in IDLE

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Bugs #405553, was updated on 2001-03-02 15:06
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Category: Python Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 7
Submitted By: Guido van Rossum
Assigned to: Ka-Ping Yee
Summary: pydoc.help broken in IDLE

Initial Comment:
pydoc has an (undocumented?) feature that after "from
pydoc import help" in an interactive interpreter,
help(object) or help("modulename") gives help.

This doesn't work right in IDLE:

On Unix, it brings up a pager in the terminal window
where IDLE was started.  That's not what you want!!!

On Windows, where IDLE is normally started from the
Start menu, it gives an error, complaining about an
invalid file descriptor.

Perhaps it should invoke a stupid internal pager, like
the one used by the license() built-in command?  That
"just works" in IDLE!


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