Strange side-effect on help() about winloop HOT 8 CLOSED

@lschoe I have no idea on how this could happen. If I'm going to be absolutely honest with you. But this does seem to be very bad. A fix as well as debugging the problem would be a good idea but I do not know where we would start. There is a macro in the program you could try enabling that and compiling the project with debugging turned on and start tracking the bug.

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I've tracked the problem down to a call to os.system(). A call like help(pow) is handled by pydoc and on Windows ends up calling pydoc.tempfilepager(). At the end of that function the call os.system(cmd + ' "' + filename + '"') fails with exit code 1.

The same can be experienced in the examples above. For example, in the Python REPL instead of >>> help(pow) now do:

>>> import os; os.system('path')
1

Maybe this gives you a clue where to look?

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