help() was not paging to the shell. Issue1650.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py b/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py
index 9962894d4d..434df67b09 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py
@@ -828,6 +828,14 @@ class PyShell(OutputWindow):
             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)
         #