autoflush on/off

[garabik-news-2005-05 at kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk]

Jabba Laci <jabba.laci at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to set autoflush on/off in my script. I have a loop that is
> checking something and every 5 second I want to print a '.' (dot). I
> do it with sys.stdout.write and since there is no newline, it is
> buffered and not visible immediately.

My solution is sys.stdout.write('.'); sys.stdout.flush()

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