!! Non blocking IO !!

[Stephan Houben]

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:56:01 +0200, Pierre Saloni <me at nospam.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>
>>I don't know what you mean with "non-blocking", but according to the
>>Perl manpage, the $| variable determines whether to flush the file
>>after every output operation.
>>
>>$| = 0 means do NOT flush after every operation, and this is the default.
>>Actually, that's also the way things work in Python; you have to flush
>>the buffers explicitely. Use the flush() method on the file object if you
>>want the $| = 1 effect.
>
>
>    Yes it is right ... sorry, i meant $|=1 ...
>    In fact what I want is an autoflush when I print, i do not want print to
>bufferize at all.
>    I did this in perl, but cannot find the right way in python.

Then just call sys.stdout.flush() after every print statement.
Don't forget to import sys.

Greetings,

Stephan