[issue37755] pydoc topics, keywords and symbols always use pager instead of output

Change by Enrico Tröger : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +14847 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15105 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue37755] pydoc topics, keywords and symbols always use pager instead of output

New submission from Enrico Tröger : I noticed a probably unintended behavior in help() usage: when an output is set on pydoc.Helper(), most of its methods use this output instead of a pager. But 'True', 'False' and 'None' as well as all topics, keywords and symbols always use a pager instead

[issue23166] urllib2 ignores opener configuration under certain circumstances

Enrico Tröger added the comment: I got the same error suddenly with Python 2.7.9. I think this is quite unfortunate because it somewhat breaks existing behaviour, especially that SSL certificate verification is enabled by default. Don't get me wrong, this is the right thing in general