help() fixed up so it's internalised

A few people pointed out that help() can cause problems, specifically
when the help string is really big, so I've internalised it and injected
my own help() function into the interpreter which pages the output, but
it's pretty ghetto so I'm open to suggestions for improvement.

That said, it's pretty obvious that scrolling up and down (like less)
would be the main requested improvement so I should get to work on that
at some point.
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Bob Farrell
2008-06-21 18:55:31 +01:00
parent 414b8a3daf
commit 2f6555bfd2
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import pydoc
import textwrap
import sys
window = None
def _help( query ):
"""Wrapper for the regular help() function but with a ghetto
PAGER since curses + less = :(
query : the actual search thing
window : a curses window instance to use getch() on
and for extrapolating the window size to work it all out"""
rows, columns = window.getmaxyx()
rows -= 3
columns -= 1
output = pydoc.getdoc( query )
if '\n' in output:
output = output.replace('\n\n', '\n')
output = output.split('\n')
else:
output = [output]
paragraphs = []
for o in output:
paragraphs.append( textwrap.wrap( o, columns ) )
i = 0
for j, paragraph in enumerate( paragraphs ):
for line in paragraph:
sys.stdout.write( line + '\n' )
i += 1
if not i % rows:
wait_for_key( window )
if j + 1 < len( paragraphs ):
sys.stdout.write('\n ')
def wait_for_key( window ):
"""Block until a key is pressed for the ghetto paging."""
window.addstr("Press any key...")
while True:
c = window.getch()
if c:
break
y = window.getyx()[0]
window.move(y-1, 0)
window.clrtoeol()