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Support the "pager" binary in _pyrepl (#122878)
Debian (and derivatives) provide a /usr/bin/pager binary, managed by the alternatives system, that always points to an available pager utility. Allow _pyrepl to use it, to follow system policy. This is a very trivial change, from a patch that Debian has been carrying since 2.7 era. Seems appropriate to upstream. https://bugs.debian.org/799555
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Lib/_pyrepl/pager.py

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return plain_pager
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if sys.platform == 'win32':
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return lambda text, title='': tempfile_pager(plain(text), 'more <')
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if hasattr(os, 'system') and os.system('(pager) 2>/dev/null') == 0:
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return lambda text, title='': pipe_pager(text, 'pager', title)
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if hasattr(os, 'system') and os.system('(less) 2>/dev/null') == 0:
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return lambda text, title='': pipe_pager(text, 'less', title)
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Use the ``pager`` binary, if available (e.g. on Debian and derivatives), to display REPL ``help()``.

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