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Backport PR #2738: Unicode content crashes the pager (console)...
Backport PR #2738: Unicode content crashes the pager (console) We've run into an interesting bug in the astropy project. https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/600 When displaying a docstring that contains Unicode and is also long enough that it gets sent to the pager it fails since the docstring can't be sent to the pager as ascii. This crashes in the middle of sending content to the pager, so the shell ends up in an inconsistent state and stops echoing the keyboard etc. The fix (attached) is merely to encode the content sent to the pager in the same encoding as the terminal (`sys.stdout.encoding`). Strictly speaking, this isn't always the right thing to do, since the pager may be configured to expect a different encoding than the terminal, but that is sort of an irrational way to configure a machine... ;) For example, `less`, in the absence of any special environment variables to tell it otherwise, uses the standard `LC*` environment variables to determine what to do, which should be the same mechanism the terminal also uses by default. If anyone can suggest a better fix, I'm all for it. Perhaps it should be configurable, defaulting to `sys.stdout.encoding`?

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# encoding: utf-8
"""
Utilities for working with external processes.
"""
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (C) 2008-2011 The IPython Development Team
#
# Distributed under the terms of the BSD License. The full license is in
# the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Imports
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
from __future__ import print_function
# Stdlib
import os
import sys
import shlex
# Our own
if sys.platform == 'win32':
from ._process_win32 import _find_cmd, system, getoutput, AvoidUNCPath, arg_split
else:
from ._process_posix import _find_cmd, system, getoutput, arg_split
from ._process_common import getoutputerror
from IPython.utils import py3compat
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Code
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
class FindCmdError(Exception):
pass
def find_cmd(cmd):
"""Find absolute path to executable cmd in a cross platform manner.
This function tries to determine the full path to a command line program
using `which` on Unix/Linux/OS X and `win32api` on Windows. Most of the
time it will use the version that is first on the users `PATH`. If
cmd is `python` return `sys.executable`.
Warning, don't use this to find IPython command line programs as there
is a risk you will find the wrong one. Instead find those using the
following code and looking for the application itself::
from IPython.utils.path import get_ipython_module_path
from IPython.utils.process import pycmd2argv
argv = pycmd2argv(get_ipython_module_path('IPython.frontend.terminal.ipapp'))
Parameters
----------
cmd : str
The command line program to look for.
"""
if cmd == 'python':
return os.path.abspath(sys.executable)
try:
path = _find_cmd(cmd).rstrip()
except OSError:
raise FindCmdError('command could not be found: %s' % cmd)
# which returns empty if not found
if path == '':
raise FindCmdError('command could not be found: %s' % cmd)
return os.path.abspath(path)
def pycmd2argv(cmd):
r"""Take the path of a python command and return a list (argv-style).
This only works on Python based command line programs and will find the
location of the ``python`` executable using ``sys.executable`` to make
sure the right version is used.
For a given path ``cmd``, this returns [cmd] if cmd's extension is .exe,
.com or .bat, and [, cmd] otherwise.
Parameters
----------
cmd : string
The path of the command.
Returns
-------
argv-style list.
"""
ext = os.path.splitext(cmd)[1]
if ext in ['.exe', '.com', '.bat']:
return [cmd]
else:
return [sys.executable, cmd]
def abbrev_cwd():
""" Return abbreviated version of cwd, e.g. d:mydir """
cwd = os.getcwdu().replace('\\','/')
drivepart = ''
tail = cwd
if sys.platform == 'win32':
if len(cwd) < 4:
return cwd
drivepart,tail = os.path.splitdrive(cwd)
parts = tail.split('/')
if len(parts) > 2:
tail = '/'.join(parts[-2:])
return (drivepart + (
cwd == '/' and '/' or tail))