[Python-ideas] Syntax for dedented strings

[Michael Foord]

On 17 August 2011 04:33, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
> wrote:
> > Unless you regularly inspect instance.__doc__ by hand (not via help), I'm
> > not sure what you hope to accomplish here.
>
> One trick I did discover thanks to this thread: 'pydoc.pager =
> pydoc.plainpager'
>
>
Thanks Nick, that does make help substantially less annoying. I'll add it to
my python startup.

All the best,

Michael



> Eliminates the potentially annoying behaviour where help() takes over
> the entire terminal window and doesn't appear in the scrollback
> history.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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