python - Paging output from print statement

Question

I'm essentially trying to achieve this:

>>>print "SOME_VERY_LONG_TEXT" | more

Of course, it doesn't work in Python 2.7(IDLE).

Also, I tried pager 1.2's page() function, but I don't know how to get it to work correctly.

Any ideas?

[UPDATE]

I found a lazy way, as follows:

import pydoc
pydoc.pager("SOME_VERY_LONG_TEXT") 

Answer 1

You could call it as an external process. (You have to be careful with shell=True, though.)

import subprocess
longStr = 'lots of text here'
subprocess.call(['echo "'+longStr+'" | more'], shell=True)