Ronan Pigott <rpig...@berkeley.edu> added the comment:
Actually my previous comment is incorrect, the value of the PAGER is split with the shell as a result of shell=True. There _is_ still an incompatibility with man. I have a value for MANPAGER set like 'env LESS_TERMCAP_mb=^[[01;31m ... less' which becomes split on ';' by the shell as a result of 'shell=True'. The MANPAGER value is not interpreted by a shell with man, so it works as expected when using man. Becuase man explicitly allows the use of quotes, it is possible to set a value of MANPAGER that has the desired effect for both programs by quoting the terminal control sequences like so: 'env LESS="^[[01;31m ... less"'. Still, it might be reasonable to change pydocs interpretation of MANPAGER to better align with man's. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39400> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
