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From: Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>
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Subject: Re: Limit Lines of Output
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:48:13 -0400
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On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:47:22 Joshua Landau did opine:

> On 25 June 2013 21:22, Bryan Britten <britten.bryan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ah, I always forget to mention my OS on these forums. I'm running
> > Windows.
> 
> Supposedly, Windows has "more"
> [http://superuser.com/questions/426226/less-or-more-in-windows],

Yes, but less is more than more.
 
> For Linux+less; this works:
> 
> from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
> less = Popen("less", stdin=PIPE)
> less.stdin.write(b"\n".join("This is line number
> {}".format(i).encode("UTF-8") for i in range(1000)))
> less.wait()


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