sys.stdout linebuffered

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Wed May 26 15:07:56 EDT 2004


"Thomas Guettler" <guettli at thomas-guettler.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I start a long running script like this (unix):
> 
> nohup foo.py > foo.log &
> 
> Now Python thinks sys.stdout should not be
> line buffered. How can I force linebuffering?
> 
> I want to see the log file while the script is
> still running. 
> 
> I don't like this solution (Wrapping sys.stdout
> with an own class) 
> 
> http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=u4rz0icqq.fsf%40ctwd0143.fitlinxx.com

Why?  It appears to solve your problem!

Cheers,
mwh

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