Issue 19453: pydoc.py doesn't detect IronPython, help(foo) can hang (original) (raw)
Issue19453
Created on 2013-10-30 17:15 by owlmonkey, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin.
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| msg201750 - (view) | Author: David Evans (owlmonkey) | Date: 2013-10-30 17:15 |
| The pager functions used by help() in StdLib's pydoc.py don't detect IronPython correctly and the result is a lack of functionality or in some cases a hang. This is similar to issue 8110 in that the code attempts to detect windows with a check for "win32" from sys.platform and needs to check for "cli" as well to detect IronPython running on mono on linux/mac os or on windows. My naive change to workaround the problem was to add the two line test for "cli" amidst getpager() here: if sys.platform == 'win32' or sys.platform.startswith('os2'): return lambda text: tempfilepager(plain(text), 'more <') if sys.platform == 'cli': return plainpager # IronPython if hasattr(os, 'system') and os.system('(less) 2>/dev/null') == 0: return lambda text: pipepager(text, 'less') That two line addition allowed basic function and prevents the hang though maybe there is a better pager type that would work on IronPython. In our linux and windows tests though neither the tempfilepager nor pipepager would function on either platform. I submitted the report to the IronPython issues tracker and someone there suggested posting the patch here. | ||
| msg228393 - (view) | Author: Mark Lawrence (BreamoreBoy) * | Date: 2014-10-03 22:12 |
| There's a two line patch inline in . If it's acceptable I'll do a formal patch myself unless someone else wants to pick this up. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:57:52 | admin | set | github: 63652 |
| 2018-07-11 10:15:38 | BreamoreBoy | set | nosy: - BreamoreBoy |
| 2018-07-11 07:37:27 | serhiy.storchaka | set | type: crash -> behavior |
| 2014-10-03 22:12:46 | BreamoreBoy | set | nosy: + tim.golden, BreamoreBoy, zach.ware, steve.dowermessages: + |
| 2013-10-31 19:11:43 | jeff.hardy | set | nosy: + jeff.hardy |
| 2013-10-30 17:15:13 | owlmonkey | create |