Unbuffered stdout

[Quinn Dunkan]

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:47:22 -0700, Bjorn Pettersen <bjorn at roguewave.com> wrote:
>> leon <leonar_n at epita.fr> wrote:
>> > I'm developping an IRC like software which must work on the 
>> Web. I can't use
>> > Java, and I'm using Python to program the CGI. But, I have 
>> a big problem : I
>> > don't know how to make the stdout unbuffered.
>> > I tried to make some
>> >     sys.stdout.write("test")
>> >     sys.stdout.flush()
>> > but it don't work.
>> 
>> looks fine to me.  maybe something else
>> is wrong?
>> 
>> anyway, you could try running the inter-
>> preter with the -u option:
>> 
>> $ python -?
>> Unknown option: -?
>> usage: python [option] ... [-c cmd | file | -] [arg] ...
>> Options and arguments (and corresponding environment variables):
>> ...
>> -u     : unbuffered binary stdout and stderr (also PYTHONUNBUFFERED=x)
>> ...
>> 
>> </F>
>
>Note that some webservers automatically buffer cgi output until the cgi
>closes stdout.  To the best of my knowledge there are no pretty workarounds
>for this...  You should check your webserver's docs to see if this is the
>case though.

apache 1.3 and on has 'effectively unbuffered' cgi scripts.  For apache 1.2
and earlier you can use the nph- hack.