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autopage

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A library to provide automatic paging for console output

Last release 8 months ago
30 Jan 2026
Ships unpredictably
gaps range from 2 weeks to 2.3 years
Some releases are documented
notes for 4 of 11 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
6 years old
11 releases · first in 2021

Release timeline

11 releases since 2021

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Releases

0.6.030 Jan 2026
Compatibility with Python 3.15.0a5
This release features:

Compatibility with Python 3.15.0a5

Testing on Python 3.13, 3.14, and 3.15

Compliance with PEP540 (UTF-8 Mode)

Deference to the standard library colorization of argparse output
where available (in Python 3.14+)

The ability to specify a different default error code (instead of 1)
Open source →
Additional notes
This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.5.2 and v0.6.0 there were 17 commits, 16 of them substantive:

README: Update copyright date

README: Mention EPEL 9 packaging

tox.ini: Add posargs to commands

Test with Python 3.13

Test with Python 3.14

Handle PEP 540 UTF-8 Mode

Test with Python 3.15

Fix test dependencies for Python 3.8 and 3.9

README: Update copyright date

tox: Allow later versions of mypy in tests

Fix argparse with Python 3.15a2

argparse: Respect 'color' setting of ArgumentParser in Python 3.14

argparse: Disable color output when appropriate

argparse: Pass original output stream to _get_formatter()

argparse: Disable our own colorization from Python 3.14

Allow consumer to provide a different default error code
0.5.216 Oct 2023

This release includes the following fixes:

Always return an integer error code from exit_code()
Fix line buffering detection for TTYs on Illumos/Solaris
Numerous improvements to the integration tests:
- Work correctly with less v633
- Fix flaky tests
- Improve behaviour and debugging when tests fail
- Allow test runners to capture stdout of all child processes
Update test dependencies to account for recent releases of fixtures
Test using a more recent version of mypy
Run tests on Python 3.11 and 3.12

Open source →

Additional notes

This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.5.1 and v0.5.2 there were 18 commits, 17 of them substantive:

Test on Python 3.11
Depend on fixtures[streams] for tox tests
README: fix module paths
tox: pin python version for mypy
Handle non-integer SystemExit codes
Fix signal handler type in unit tests
Use more recent mypy
tox: Fix dependencies for py36 environment
integration tests: Prevent hang when tests fail
integration tests: Ignore sys.stdout when getting tty
integration tests: Use constant for child pid
integration tests: Make timeouts more robust
Test with Python 3.12
integration tests: Print output for easier debugging
Fix integration tests with less >= v613
Revert "integration tests: Reduce sleep()s"
Fix tty line buffering detection on Illumos

0.5.127 May 2022

This release makes unit tests more robust on Python 3.10.

Open source →

Additional notes

This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.5.0 and v0.5.1 there were 2 commits, 1 of them substantive:

integration tests: Increase timeout for subprocess to exit

0.5.021 Jan 2022

More (optional) strategies for selecting the pager command to use.

This release features:

Testing on Python 3.10.
More (optional) strategies for selecting the pager command to use.
Fully-automated integration testing.
Support for type checking by consumers using PEP561.

Open source →

Additional notes

This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.4.0 and v0.5.0 there were 36 commits, 35 of them substantive:

Test on Python 3.10
Add more flexible command API
Add pager_command option
Remove _pager_cmd() method
unit tests: Replace EnvironmentTest with ConfigTest
Don't pass environment explicitly if it is unchanged
Add a "more" PagerCommand
Add PlatformPager tests for all platforms
Default to 'more' on AIX
Default to 'more.com' on Windows
Add UserSpecifiedPager pager command option
Don't read env by default if run with suid bit
Don't invoke pager if it is set to 'cat'
README: fix error in function name in example
Add some simple end-to-end tests
integration tests: Fix typo in _exit_code_from_status()
integration tests: Add additional end-to-end tests
integration tests: Fix flakiness on pypy
integration tests: Check for stderr output
integration tests: Don't use LESS_IS_MORE

…and 15 more.

0.4.013 Jul 2021

This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.3.1 and v0.4.0 there were 6 commits, 5 of them substantive:

This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.3.1 and v0.4.0 there were 6 commits, 5 of them substantive:

README: Add Ubuntu installation instructions
argparse: Use constant for color attribute name
argparse: Add public API to set color mode on parser
argparse: Rename color attribute
Use @wraps in decorator

0.3.125 Jun 2021

This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.3.0 and v0.3.1 there were 6 commits, 5 of them substantive:

This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.3.0 and v0.3.1 there were 6 commits, 5 of them substantive:

Set lower constraint for mypy
Remove unnecessary #!
Include tox.ini in tarball
Document installation via RPMs from Copr
Remove upper caps on test requirements

0.3.06 Jun 2021

This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.2.0 and v0.3.0 there were 15 commits, 14 of them substantive:

This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.2.0 and v0.3.0 there were 15 commits, 14 of them substantive:

Fall back if invoking pager fails
Set $LV environment variable
Add argparse module to page help output
Improve type specificity
argparse: Style help output
argparse: Correctly exit pager if < 1 screen of data
Refactor enter and exit code
Only disable --quit-if-one-screen when line buffering explicitly enabled
argparse: Add help_pager() convenience function
Don't probe closed stream during init
Stop using magic number for signals
Set SIGPIPE exit code if flush fails
Improve comment about why we close a broken pipe
Protect all of pager cleanup from SIGINT

0.2.024 Apr 2021

This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.1.2 and v0.2.0 there were 22 commits, 21 of them substantive:

This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.1.2 and v0.2.0 there were 22 commits, 21 of them substantive:

Always flush output and handle broken pipe
Handle errors creating replacement stdout better
README: Fix typo in example
Add unit test environment
unit tests: Test to_terminal()
unit tests: Use fixtures
unit tests: Test exit_code()
unit tests: Test LESS envvar
unit tests: Test line_buffer_for_input()
unit tests: Test default stdout for to_terminal()
unit tests: Test pager command
unit tests: Test stream cleanup when no pager invoked
Test on PyPy
unit tests: Test reconfiguring output stream with no pager
Fix setting error strategy for output stream
Allow strings to be passed for error strategy
unit tests: Test spawning mock pager subprocess
unit tests: Test context manager enter
unit tests: Test clean up after invoking pager
Allow user to pass arguments in $PAGER envvar

…and 1 more.

0.1.26 Apr 2021

This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.1.1 and v0.1.2 there were 2 commits, 1 of them substantive:

This project publishes no release notes. Between v0.1.1 and v0.1.2 there were 2 commits, 1 of them substantive:

Fix additional typing issues with error strategy