How do I control output buffering on Win32?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Grant Edwards wrote:

> When I ssh in to my Windows XP box and run Python apps, output
> from "print" and and "sys.stdout.write()" is being buffered so
> that none of the output shows up until the program exits. 
> 
>>From within my program how do I set output buffering to either
> line-buffered or un-buffered?  [I'm looking for the equivalent
> of the C stdio "setbuf" call.]

I'm not sure you can do that from within the program [1]; to do it from 
the outside, set the PYTHONUNBUFFERED environment variable to something, 
or pass "-u" to the interpreter.

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1) well, I suppose you could replace sys.stdout with a thin wrapper that 
does flush after each write, or play with os.fdopen.