Why there isn't an easier way of doing this, I have no idea. It'd be nice if this would work:
sys.stdin.read(1)
...however, because the file is a tty, nothing gets read until the user hits enter.
Enter getch. It's a utility written by Danny Yoo and stolen from a posting I found on google: ASPN : Python Cookbook : getch()-like unbuffered character reading from stdin on both Windows and Unix.
Description:
Let Python determine the best pager available:
import pydocpydoc.pager(text)
This may pipe the text into an external program like less or more.
...or explicitly use the built-in pager:
import pydocpydoc.ttypager(text)
Source: http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t584112-paging-in-python-shell.htm...
A fun bit of code brought to my attention by Lih:
>>> l = [1,2,3,4]>>> l[1, 2, 3, 4]>>> l2 = [ x+1 for x in l ]>>> l2[2, 3, 4, 5]
