Proposal for new option -U extending -u

Carl Banks pavlovevidence at gmail.com
Sat Jul 29 21:01:18 EDT 2006


James Thiele wrote:
> Currently -u specifies that stdin, stdout and stderr are all
> unbuffered. I propose a that -U make all files unbuffered. It could be
> useful for programs that log to files.
>
> Comments solicited.

Unnecessary.  You can control the buffering of any file object you
create yourself, e.g. open("somefile",buffering=0) to create an
unbuffered file object.  The reason you need a switch for stdin,
stdout, stderr is you don't create those objects yourself.

Carl Banks




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