[FIXED] equivalent of |more for python dir / help()

Issue

I'm using the Spyder ide and if I do help(scipy.sparse.coo_matrix) I get a lot of output on the screen. Is it possible to display it page by page? Something like what | more does on Bash. e.g. ls | more

Solution

(Spyder maintainer here) To activate a pager inside our consoles, you need to go to the menu

Tools > Preferences > IPython console > Display

and activate the option called Use a pager to display additional text inside the console.

However, a way more comfortable way to read docs inside Spyder is by simply pressing Ctrl + I (Cmd + I on macOS) in front of an object and see those docs rendered as an html page inside our Help pane.

Note: Paging is broken as of October 2020. Given that's been the case for years without no one noticing it, we decided to remove it in our next version (4.2.0), to be released in November 2020.

Answered By - Carlos Cordoba