Hi, Spyder's console is trying to emulate a classic text terminal with a graphical user interface (the ultimate reference of GUI-based terminal written with Qt would be "Konsole", but we are very far from this because rewriting Konsole in pure Python/PyQt would be a Python project in itself). That is not an easy task in terms of performances and terminal features compatibility. It currently supports a lot of classic terminal features like text coloring (ANSI escape codes) or command history, but it does not support features related to screen length, like the "more" feature which is capable of splitting the displayed text in pages matching the screen length of the terminal.
So that's why typing 'help(pylab)' will display the whole help contents without pausing. Anyway, the Spyder's console is far from being perfect but it's the fastest and the most full featured GUI-based console written in Python I've ever tried. But, note that typing 'help(something)' to get help on something is typically a text-terminal approach. Here, with Spyder, you may use GUI- based tools to get the documentation you need, which are much more efficient in the context of a GUI-based development environment: * the object inspector (see Spyder's documentation) * the online documentation (hidden by default: see menu "View") HTH, Pierre On Feb 27, 11:10 pm, DP <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello: > > I just tried 2.0.8 as a novice and typed 'help(pylab)' as indicated. > Spyder is great at least for beginners in any case. > > But contrary to bare ipython the printed text scrolls the 4000+ lines > without > pausing, which prevents to read most of the pylab help. > > Dan > > (Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Feb 27 2011, 08:49:33) on Mandriva cooker > 64 bit) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib?hl=en.
