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Oh well, in that case I guess we'll have to work around it.
Here's the monkey patch I use to overcome this limitation in pydoc, in case others wish to add it to their PYTHONSTARTUP or sitecustomize:
def pipepager(text, cmd):
 """Page through text by feeding it to another program."""
 try:
 import locale
 except ImportError:
 encoding = "ascii"
 else:
 encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
 pipe = os.popen(cmd, 'w')
 try:
 pipe.write(text.encode(encoding, 'xmlcharrefreplace') if isinstance(text, unicode) else text)
 pipe.close()
 except IOError:
 pass # Ignore broken pipes caused by quitting the pager program.
import pydoc
pydoc.pipepager = pipepager
del pydoc, pipepager