perl to python

[Scott Schwartz]

"Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> writes:
> > 2) Python generators on stdin behave strangely.  For one thing,
> > they're not properly line buffered, so you don't get any lines until
> > eof.  But then, eof is handled wrongly, and the loop doesn't exit.
> 
> There's a command-line flag to make stdin/stdout be unbuffered.
> Try your test again with 'python -u'.

No effect, because that's not the problem.  The generator is reading
ahead and doing it's own buffering, in addition to whatever the stream
is doing (or not doing).  Hence the bug.