https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ab79a3d04ac145900b62fcadbfcb79ef2766cca3 commit: ab79a3d04ac145900b62fcadbfcb79ef2766cca3 branch: 3.14 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: StanFromIreland <[email protected]> date: 2026-11-02T16:54:16Z summary:
[3.14] gh-161039: Fix detection of `less` 706 and later by the `pydoc` pager (GH-161040) (#161149) (cherry picked from commit 2f2051287f0c24c7bb99a7f570e5a6178ba1f8de) Co-authored-by: Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <[email protected]> files: A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-10-31-21-34-00.gh-issue-161039.k7_pTD.rst M Lib/_pyrepl/pager.py diff --git a/Lib/_pyrepl/pager.py b/Lib/_pyrepl/pager.py index 1fddc63e3ee3ad0..2914755f435d86b 100644 --- a/Lib/_pyrepl/pager.py +++ b/Lib/_pyrepl/pager.py @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def get_pager() -> Pager: return lambda text, title='': tempfile_pager(plain(text), 'more <') if hasattr(os, 'system') and os.system('(pager) 2>/dev/null') == 0: return lambda text, title='': pipe_pager(text, 'pager', title) - if hasattr(os, 'system') and os.system('(less) 2>/dev/null') == 0: + if hasattr(os, 'system') and os.system('(less -V) >/dev/null 2>&1') == 0: return lambda text, title='': pipe_pager(text, 'less', title) import tempfile diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-10-31-21-34-00.gh-issue-161039.k7_pTD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-10-31-21-34-00.gh-issue-161039.k7_pTD.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000000..3b697fb155b7aca --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-10-31-21-34-00.gh-issue-161039.k7_pTD.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Fix the :mod:`pydoc` pager not detecting ``less`` 706 and newer. _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
