"print" strange with Sybase module

[Chris]

Erwin & Fredrik -

Thank you both very much.  Your responses have shed significant light into
dark areas for me!

Chris


Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at effbot.org> wrote in message
news:_LVc6.9609$Qb7.1426225 at newsb.telia.net...
> Erwin S. Andreasen wrote:
> > AFAICS, there is no way to turn the buffering to be line-based on an
existing
> > file object (it might be an idea for a future release?). You could do
> > something like:
> >
> > sys.stdout = os.fdopen(os.dup(sys.stdout.fileno()), 'w', 1)
> >
> > which would reopen standard output as a line-buffered (the 1) stream,
> > i.e. every time you have written a full line to the file object, it's
flushed
> > -- just like when you run the program on the console.
>
> here's a variant, which works for any kind of sys.stdout:
>
>     class UnbufferedStream:
>         def __init__(self, stream):
>             self.stream = stream
>         def write(self, data):
>             self.stream.write(data)
>             self.stream.flush()
>         def __getattr__(self, attr):
>             # delegate everything else
>             return getattr(self.stream, attr)
>
>     sys.stdout = UnbufferedStream(sys.stdout)
>
> Cheers /F
>
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