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Asked: 2026-06-17T12:21:35+00:00

I often need to view long text variables in iPython. I typically use scroll

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I often need to view long text variables in iPython. I typically use scroll buffers for this, but I really want a pager with searching. Does iPython have a way to view long variables in a pager (e.g., less)? If not, I can certainly contrive a way to do this with !.

Note: I’m not asking how to set up PAGER generally. ?, ??, %pdoc, etc all work fine with a less. I’m asking specifically for paging variables.

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    Answer: %page

    Example usage:

    snafu$ ipython
In [1]: import httplib2
In [2]: resp,data = httplib2.Http().request('http://google.com')
In [3]: %page data

    Answer from How to use Pipe in ipython

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