perl to python

[Josh Gilbert]

It's in the python man page:

       -u     Force  stdin,  stdout  and  stderr to be totally unbuffered. 
On systems where it matters, also put stdin, stdout and  stderr  in binary 
mode.   Note  that there is internal buffering in xread-lines(),
readlines() and file-object  iterators  ("for  line  in sys.stdin")  which 
is  not  influenced by this option.  To work around this, you will want to
use "sys.stdin.readline()"  inside a "while 1:" loop.

When I use sys.stdin.readline I don't need to use to -u flag. 

You can also use raw_input() to get data from stdin. This also appears to
strip out the newline. 


        Josh Gilbert.

Andrew Dalke wrote:

> Scott Schwartz
>> No effect, because that's not the problem.
> 
> Ahh, you're right.  I keyword matched "buffer" and thought you meant
> the system buffer and not Python's.
> 
>                     Andrew
>                     dalke at dalkescientific.com