[Python-ideas] Cleaner separation of help() and interactive help.

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Tue Feb 8 01:12:54 CET 2011


Steven D'Aprano writes:

 > What you're describing *is* a pager. The default pager is the (almost) 
 > lowest common denominator which should work for anyone anywhere. 
 > (Possibly not if they're using a teletype.) Perhaps help() should come 
 > with some more pagers and an easy interface for setting which one is used.

+1

And the next one to supply is "cat". ;-)



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