Other difference with Perl: Python scripts in a pipe

[Peter Otten]

Ian Kelly wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Fillmore <fillmore_remove at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> when I put a Python script in pipe with other commands, it will refuse to
>> let go silently. Any way I can avoid this?
> 
> What is your script doing? I don't see this problem.
> 
> ikelly at queso:~ $ cat somescript.py
> import sys
> 
> for i in range(20):
>     sys.stdout.write('line %d\n' % i)
> ikelly at queso:~ $ python somescript.py | head -5
> line 0
> line 1
> line 2
> line 3
> line 4
> ikelly at queso:~ $ python3 somescript.py | head -5
> line 0
> line 1
> line 2
> line 3
> line 4

I suppose you need to fill the OS-level cache:

$ cat somescript.py 
import sys

for i in range(int(sys.argv[1])):
    sys.stdout.write('line %d\n' % i)
$ python somescript.py 20 | head -n5
line 0
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
$ python somescript.py 200 | head -n5
line 0
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
$ python somescript.py 2000 | head -n5
line 0
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "somescript.py", line 4, in <module>
    sys.stdout.write('line %d\n' % i)
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

During my experiments I even got

close failed in file object destructor:
sys.excepthook is missing
lost sys.stderr

occasionally.