Source code for lmi.shell.LMIHelper

# Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Peter Hatina <phatina@redhat.com>
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import os
import sys
import subprocess
from site import _Helper


[docs]class LMIHelper(_Helper): """ LMI Helper class, which overrides python help. """ def __repr__(self): """ :returns: pretty string for the object. """ return "Type help() to see man page for lmishell, " \ "or help(object) for help about object." def __call__(self, request=None): """ Executes either man page for LMIShell or prints pydoc help for an object. """ if request is None: try: # Python 3+ from subprocess import DEVNULL as devnull devnull_close = lambda: None except ImportError: devnull = open(os.devnull, "wb") devnull_close = lambda: devnull.close() rcode = subprocess.call(["man", "lmishell"], stderr=devnull) devnull_close() if rcode > 0: sys.stderr.write("Man page for lmishell can not be found, ") sys.stderr.write("refer to official documentation.\n\n") sys.stderr.write("Available at: http://www.openlmi.org\n") else: import pydoc return pydoc.help(request)