#23792: Ignore KeyboardInterrupt when the pydoc pager is active.
Previously, if you hit ctl-c while the pager was active, the python that launched the subprocess for the pager would see the KeyboardInterrupt in the __exit__ method of the subprocess context manager where it was waiting for the subprocess to complete, ending the wait. This would leave the pager running, while the interactive interpreter, after handling the exception by printing it, would go back to trying to post a prompt...but the pager would generally have the terminal in raw mode, and in any case would be still trying to read from stdin. On some systems, even exiting python at that point would not restore the terminal mode. The problem with raw mode could also happen if ctl-C was hit when pydoc was called from the shell command line and the pager was active. Instead, we now wait on the subprocess in a loop, ignoring KeyboardInterrupt just like the pager does, until the pager actually exits. (Note: this was a regression relative to python2...in python2 the pager is called via system, and system does not return until the pager exits.)
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