From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:44:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: If $TERM is "dumb" or "emacs", just dump the text instead of trying to run
X-Git-Tag: v2.2a3~980
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0a66fcb11666feb1b01e8a607ebc7dde7f9c451c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

If $TERM is "dumb" or "emacs", just dump the text instead of trying to run
"less".
Patch contributed by Alex Convertry.
This closes SF patch #443551.
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diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 9ec57aa38ca0..fe90a01f8e82 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -954,6 +954,8 @@ def getpager():
         return plainpager
     if not sys.stdin.isatty() or not sys.stdout.isatty():
         return plainpager
+    if os.environ.get('TERM') in ['dumb', 'emacs']:
+        return lambda text: sys.stdout.write(text)
     if os.environ.has_key('PAGER'):
         if sys.platform == 'win32': # pipes completely broken in Windows
             return lambda text: tempfilepager(plain(text), os.environ['PAGER'])