how do i disable buffered output, like Perl's '$|=1'?

[Fredrik Lundh]

floR wrote:
> Not exactly what I meant, I think.

It does exactly what you want -- but sure, there are
other ways to do the same thing:

> Okay, what I want to do in particular, is to send 'print' commands to the
> browser in intervals, without buffering, something like the following:
>
+ import sys
> print 'Content-type: text/html\n\n'
> countdown = 10
> while countdown:
>     print countdown
>     countdown = countdown - 1
+     sys.stdout.flush() # flush output buffers
>     sleep(1)
>
> so that the countdown seems to happen in your browser, instead of waiting
> for 10 seconds for the string '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' to appear.

(this assumes that your server sends data to the client
as soon it arrives from the CGI script, of course).

Cheers /F