From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 01:53:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: SF bug 666444:  'help' makes linefeed only under Win32.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~1979
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=550e4e558367e0460a89fc4d253e491661a35b78;p=python

SF bug 666444:  'help' makes linefeed only under Win32.
Reverting one of those irritating "security fixes".  fdopen() opens
files in binary mode.  That makes pydoc skip the \r\n on Windows that's
need to make the output readable in the shell.  Screw it.
---

diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 9179721c71..9e55a89687 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1229,8 +1229,8 @@ def pipepager(text, cmd):
 def tempfilepager(text, cmd):
     """Page through text by invoking a program on a temporary file."""
     import tempfile
-    (fd, filename) = tempfile.mkstemp()
-    file = os.fdopen(fd, 'w')
+    filename = tempfile.mktemp()
+    file = open(filename, 'w')
     file.write(text)
     file.close()
     try: