From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:50:01 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: backport patch resulting from discussion on <http://python.org/sf/612111>.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.2b1~95
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=459a58f26612058b2697669b67f9bc22d280171c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

backport patch resulting from discussion on <http://python.org/sf/612111>.
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diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index abf84e6cd4d1..7eafe3833df4 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1191,7 +1191,7 @@ def getpager():
             return lambda text: pipepager(text, os.environ['PAGER'])
     if sys.platform == 'win32':
         return lambda text: tempfilepager(plain(text), 'more <')
-    if hasattr(os, 'system') and os.system('less 2>/dev/null') == 0:
+    if hasattr(os, 'system') and os.system('(less) 2>/dev/null') == 0:
         return lambda text: pipepager(text, 'less')
 
     import tempfile