[Python-Dev] Backwards incompatible sys.stdout.write() behavior in Python 3 (Was: [Python-ideas] Pythonic buffering in Py3 print())

[Xavier Morel]

On 2012-01-13, at 17:19 , Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> "-u" forces line-buffering mode for stdout/stderr, which is already the
> default if they are wired to an interactive device (isattr() returning
> True).
Oh, I had not noticed the documentation had changed in Python 3 (in
Python 2 it stated that `-u` made IO unbuffered, on Python 3 it now
states that only binary IO is unbuffered and text IO remains
line-buffered). Sorry about that.