[Tutor] Re: getting 'more or less' online documentation

[Emile van Sebille]

"McCarney, James Alexander" <James.Alexander.McCarney@Cognicase.com>
wrote in message
news:23FD7B1A77E8D211BCB900001D108C02023FCB45@camelot...
> Hope this one isn't a howler. I did rtfm, so maybe it's mere fatigue
that's
> preventing me from finding this. I'd like to know how to control how
much
> text displays when printing a doc string to the screen--a la 'more' or
> 'less' utilities.
>
> I know I can use the scroll bar--but how uncool... :^)
>
> Using IDLE 0.8, Windows 2000, Python 2.2
>

help() does that now -- is that what you're looking for?

import bisect
help(bisect)



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Emile van Sebille
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