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Yes, this works for me as well:

$ python
Python 2.2.1 (#2, Sep  9 2002, 17:22:35) [C] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.system('(less) 2>/dev/null')
256

I checked in that change as pydoc.py 1.70 and am closing this item.  
One last question, however...  Is there some reason the 'more' test just 
below:

    if hasattr(os, 'system') and os.system('more %s' % filename) == 0:

has a slightly different structure?  Why not 'more 2>/dev/null' or now 
'(more) 2>/dev/null'?