On 31/01/2015 08:17, Jacob Kruger wrote:
Using python 3.4 32 bit on windows 7 64 bit machine, and when, for
example, type in something like the following in interpreter window:
help(str)
It will populate the screen with one full screen of information, with a
prompt of --more-- to hit enter, or something to continue displaying
information, but, when, for example, hit enter key, it merely populates
one more line of info, each time - under pythn 2.7, it seemed to render
one full screen of info each time.
Is there rather a different keystroke should use to invoke that, or is
this a python 3.4 feature/issue?
The help() function uses (by default, on Windows) the built-in
"more.com" command. There's some hand-waving going on there because it
can/will be overridden if you have a different "more" executable
available before the system-provided more.com or if you have a PAGER env
var set.
If you, at the Windows command prompt (ie *not* in Python), type:
more /?
You can see the various keystrokes which the program responds to.
Specifically, the last two lines show:
<space> Display next page
<ret> Display next line
which is, I suspect, what you're after here.
(If you're interested, the code for all this is in the pydoc module
(Lib\pydoc.py) in the getpager() function.
TJG
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