Simple (?) question about print statement

[Fredrik Lundh]

Grant Edwards wrote:

> > try this instead:
> >
> >     import time, sys
> >
> >     for i in range(10):
> >         time.sleep(0.8) # seconds; tune as necessary
> >         print i,
> >         sys.stdout.flush() # flush stdout
> >     print
>
> Is mixing print and sys.stdout.XXXXX never a problem?

print uses sys.stdout, so the answer is no.

> I never do it because it "feels" too much like mixing printf()
> and write() on the same file descriptor. But, now that I think
> about it I doubt that's a valid analogy

it's more like mixing fprintf and fwrite.

> and I'm probably just paranoid.

might be, might be.

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