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    <p>I should say I'm looking for a solution to the problem of <strong>viewing output that does not fit on your screen.</strong> For example, range(100) will show the last 30ish lines in your terminal of 30 height. </p> <p>I am only looking to be nudged in the right direction and am curious how you guys have approached this problem. </p> <p>What have you done when you run into a situation where you wish you could conveniently scroll through some large output? </p> <h2>Best Answer</h2> <p>Use the scrollback buffer on your terminal. </p> <p>If you're using GNU Screen, it can be set with <code>defscrollback 1000</code> or any other number in <code>HOME/.screenrc</code>. </p> <p>Use <code>Ctrl-a, [</code> to enter copy mode</p> <pre><code>j - Move the cursor down by one line k - Move the cursor up by one line C-u - Scrolls a half page up. C-b - Scrolls a full page up. C-d - Scrolls a half page down. C-f - Scrolls the full page down. G - Moves to the specified line </code></pre> <p>The best part is <code>?</code> for reverse search, <code>/</code> for forward search while in copy mode. </p> <p>Super convenient.</p> <p>Thank you!</p> <hr> <h2>Original question:</h2> <p>What is the python equivalent of the bash less command? </p> <pre><code>LongString | less </code></pre> <p>Is there something like that for python? I find myself thinking I could use it fairly often but just move on and find some other solution. </p> <p>By "long things" I mean anything that generates more output lines than my screen. 1000 print messages, a dictionary, a large string, range(1000), etc. </p> <p>My googlefu has failed.</p>
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    1. COTo view very long things formatted as what and in what context? To read through long strings in a paginated way?
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    2. COI'm not quite sure what you mean by "for Python". In what situation does `less` not work for you?
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    3. COI'm looking at myobject.log which is a very long string. I'd like to be able to scroll through it in the python interpreter. How can I do that?
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