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@taleinat taleinat commented Aug 5, 2019

Note that the text viewing windows are non-modal, which allows keeping them open while continuing to work in the shell.

https://bugs.python.org/issue37768

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taleinat commented Aug 31, 2019

@terryjreedy, this is a small, relatively simple code change providing a significant UX improvement; I'd love to get this into 3.8. Pending your review!

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I've merged the latest main branch into this PR.

It is still missing a configuration option for disabling this feature or setting a minimum number of help text lines for triggering it, as requested by @terryjreedy on the bpo issue.

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ambv commented May 17, 2022

This missed the boat for inclusion in Python 3.9 which accepts security fixes only as of today.

@serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka added the needs backport to 3.11 only security fixes label May 20, 2022
@hauntsaninja hauntsaninja changed the title bpo-37768: IDLE: show help(object) output in a text viewing window gh-81949: IDLE: show help(object) output in a text viewing window Jan 7, 2023
@hugovk hugovk removed the needs backport to 3.10 only security fixes label Apr 8, 2023
@serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka added needs backport to 3.12 only security fixes needs backport to 3.13 bugs and security fixes and removed needs backport to 3.11 only security fixes labels May 9, 2024
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