help() was not paging to the shell. Issue1650.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index d340e66..6688c5a 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
What's New in IDLE 3.0a3?
=========================
-*Release date: XX-XXX-200X*
+*Release date: XX-XXX-2008*
+
+- help() was not paging to the shell. Issue1650.
- CodeContext was not importing.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py b/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py
index 9962894..434df67 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py
@@ -828,6 +828,14 @@
sys.stdout = self.stdout
sys.stderr = self.stderr
sys.stdin = self
+ try:
+ # page help() text to shell.
+ import pydoc # import must be done here to capture i/o rebinding.
+ # XXX KBK 27Dec07 use a textView someday, but must work w/o subproc
+ pydoc.pager = pydoc.plainpager
+ except:
+ sys.stderr = sys.__stderr__
+ raise
#
self.history = self.History(self.text)
#
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/run.py b/Lib/idlelib/run.py
index 9fbe0e9..407e543 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/run.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/run.py
@@ -247,6 +247,9 @@
sys.stdin = self.console = self.get_remote_proxy("stdin")
sys.stdout = self.get_remote_proxy("stdout")
sys.stderr = self.get_remote_proxy("stderr")
+ # page help() text to shell.
+ import pydoc # import must be done here to capture i/o binding
+ pydoc.pager = pydoc.plainpager
from idlelib import IOBinding
sys.stdin.encoding = sys.stdout.encoding = \
sys.stderr.encoding = IOBinding.encoding