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Does iPython have built-in support for viewing a variable in pager?

I often need to view long text variables in iPython. I typically use scroll buffers for this, but I really want a pager with searching. Does iPython have a way to view long variables in a pager (e.g., less)? If not, I can certainly contrive a way to do this with !.

Note: I'm not asking how to set up PAGER generally. ?, ??, %pdoc, etc all work fine with a less. I'm asking specifically for paging variables.

Solution

  • %page

    Example usage:

    In [1]: import httplib2

In [2]: resp, data = httplib2.Http().request('http://google.com')

In [3]: %page data

    From How to print stdout excerpt in IPython