[Python-3000] help() broken in the py3k-struni branch

[Guido van Rossum]

Feel free to mail me a patch to fix it.

On 6/5/07, Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre at peadrop.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found another bug to report. It seems there is a bug in
> subprocess.py that makes help() fail.
>
> -- Alexandre
>
> Python 3.0x (py3k-struni, Jun  5 2007, 18:41:44)
> [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> help(open)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/site.py", line 350,
> in __call__
>     return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
>   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/pydoc.py", line
> 1687, in __call__
>     self.help(request)
>   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/pydoc.py", line 1731, in help
>     else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:')
>   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/pydoc.py", line 1514, in doc
>     pager(render_doc(thing, title, forceload))
>   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/pydoc.py", line 1313, in pager
>     pager(text)
>   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/pydoc.py", line
> 1333, in <lambda>
>     return lambda text: pipepager(text, 'less')
>   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/pydoc.py", line
> 1352, in pipepager
>     pipe = os.popen(cmd, 'w')
>   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/os.py", line 717, in popen
>     bufsize=buffering)
>   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/subprocess.py", line
> 476, in __init__
>     raise TypeError("bufsize must be an integer")
> TypeError: bufsize must be an integer
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