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Re: Limit Lines of Output

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Date 2013-06-25 16:18 -0400
Subject Re: Limit Lines of Output
From Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Bryan Britten <britten.bryan@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey, group, quick (I hope) question:
>
> I've got a simple script that counts the number of words in a data set
> (it's more complicated than that, but that's one of the functions), but
> there are so many words that the output is too much to see in the command
> prompt window. What I'd like to be able to do is incorporate the "More..."
> feature that help libraries have, but I have no idea how to do it. I also
> don't know if I'm asking the question correctly because a Google search
> yielding nothing.
>
> Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks!
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

If you are using linux, you should look up the comand 'less'.  It allows
you to page thru a test file.  You can either write your list to a file or
pipe it into less (haven't tried that myself)

-- 
Joel Goldstick
http://joelgoldstick.com

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Limit Lines of Output Bryan Britten <britten.bryan@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 13:09 -0700
  Re: Limit Lines of Output Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 16:18 -0400
    Re: Limit Lines of Output Bryan Britten <britten.bryan@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 13:22 -0700
      Re: Limit Lines of Output Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 21:31 +0100
      Re: Limit Lines of Output Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 16:33 -0400
        Re: Limit Lines of Output Bryan Britten <britten.bryan@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 13:37 -0700
          Re: Limit Lines of Output Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-06-25 22:27 -0400
      Re: Limit Lines of Output Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 14:39 -0600
        Re: Limit Lines of Output Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-06-26 11:41 +0000
      Re: Limit Lines of Output Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-06-25 17:48 -0400
      Re: Limit Lines of Output Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-26 16:24 +0100
        Re: Limit Lines of Output Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-26 16:46 +0000
          Re: Limit Lines of Output Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-26 23:07 +0100
        Re: Limit Lines of Output rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-26 10:09 -0700
          Re: Limit Lines of Output Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-26 23:57 +0000
            Re: Limit Lines of Output Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 13:54 +0100
      Re: Limit Lines of Output Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 01:58 +1000

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